The `FwFunc` struct contains an function with a char pointer argument, for which a `*const u8` pointer was used. This is not really the "proper" type for this, so use a `*const kernel::ffi::c_char` pointer instead.

This has no real functionality changes, since now `kernel::ffi::c_char` (which bindgen uses for `char`) is now a type alias to `u8` anyways, but before commit 1bae8729e50a ("rust: map `long` to `isize` and `char` to `u8`") the concrete type of `kernel::ffi::c_char` depended on the architecture (However all supported architectures at the time mapped to `i8`).

This caused problems on the v6.13 tag when building for 32 bit arm (with my patches), since back then `*const i8` was used in the function argument and the function that bindgen generated used `*const core::ffi::c_char` which Rust mapped to `*const u8` on 32 bit arm. The stable v6.13.y branch does not have this issue since commit 1bae8729e50a ("rust: map `long` to `isize` and `char` to `u8`") was backported.

This caused the following build error: ``` error[E0308]: mismatched types --> rust/kernel/firmware.rs:20:4 | 20 | Self(bindings::request_firmware) | ---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected fn pointer, found fn item | | | arguments to this function are incorrect | = note: expected fn pointer `unsafe extern "C" fn(_, *const i8, _) -> _` found fn item `unsafe extern "C" fn(_, *const u8, _) -> _ {request_firmware}` note: tuple struct defined here --> rust/kernel/firmware.rs:14:8 | 14 | struct FwFunc( | ^^^^^^

error[E0308]: mismatched types --> rust/kernel/firmware.rs:24:14 | 24 | Self(bindings::firmware_request_nowarn) | ---- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected fn pointer, found fn item | | | arguments to this function are incorrect | = note: expected fn pointer `unsafe extern "C" fn(_, *const i8, _) -> _` found fn item `unsafe extern "C" fn(_, *const u8, _) -> _ {firmware_request_nowarn}` note: tuple struct defined here --> rust/kernel/firmware.rs:14:8 | 14 | struct FwFunc( | ^^^^^^

error[E0308]: mismatched types --> rust/kernel/firmware.rs:64:45 | 64 | let ret = unsafe { func.0(pfw as _, name.as_char_ptr(), dev.as_raw()) }; | ------ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ expected `*const i8`, found `*const u8` | | | arguments to this function are incorrect | = note: expected raw pointer `*const i8` found raw pointer `*const u8`

error: aborting due to 3 previous errors ```

Fixes: de6582833db0 ("rust: add firmware abstractions") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin benno.lossin@proton.me Acked-by: Danilo Krummrich dakr@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Schrefl chrisi.schrefl@gmail.com --- Changes in v3: - Clarify build issues with v6.13 in commit message. - Link to v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250412-rust_arm_fix_fw_abstaction-v2-1-8e6fdf093...

Changes in v2: - Use `kernel::ffi::c_char` instead of `core::ffi::c_char`. (Danilo & Benno) - Reword the commit message. - Link to v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250411-rust_arm_fix_fw_abstaction-v1-1-0a9e59845... --- rust/kernel/firmware.rs | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/rust/kernel/firmware.rs b/rust/kernel/firmware.rs index f04b058b09b2d2397e26344d0e055b3aa5061432..2494c96e105f3a28af74548d63a44464ba50eae3 100644 --- a/rust/kernel/firmware.rs +++ b/rust/kernel/firmware.rs @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ //! //! C header: [`include/linux/firmware.h`](srctree/include/linux/firmware.h)

-use crate::{bindings, device::Device, error::Error, error::Result, str::CStr}; +use crate::{bindings, device::Device, error::Error, error::Result, ffi, str::CStr}; use core::ptr::NonNull;

/// # Invariants @@ -12,7 +12,11 @@ /// One of the following: `bindings::request_firmware`, `bindings::firmware_request_nowarn`, /// `bindings::firmware_request_platform`, `bindings::request_firmware_direct`. struct FwFunc( - unsafe extern "C" fn(*mut *const bindings::firmware, *const u8, *mut bindings::device) -> i32, + unsafe extern "C" fn( + *mut *const bindings::firmware, + *const ffi::c_char, + *mut bindings::device, + ) -> i32, );

impl FwFunc {

--- base-commit: 0af2f6be1b4281385b618cb86ad946eded089ac8 change-id: 20250408-rust_arm_fix_fw_abstaction-4c3a89d75e29

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