From: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2025 15:41:59 +0000 (-0400)
Subject: rust: miscdevice: use `core::ffi::CStr` method names
X-Git-Tag: v6.18-rc1~174^2~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e49c43ef82f57a155a6c1e6c79795abff1227f29;p=thirdparty%2Flinux.git

rust: miscdevice: use `core::ffi::CStr` method names

Prepare for `core::ffi::CStr` taking the place of `kernel::str::CStr` by
avoid methods that only exist on the latter.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1075
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
---

diff --git a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
index 6373fe183b274..d3aa7d25afad8 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/miscdevice.rs
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ impl MiscDeviceOptions {
         // SAFETY: All zeros is valid for this C type.
         let mut result: bindings::miscdevice = unsafe { MaybeUninit::zeroed().assume_init() };
         result.minor = bindings::MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR as ffi::c_int;
-        result.name = self.name.as_char_ptr();
+        result.name = crate::str::as_char_ptr_in_const_context(self.name);
         result.fops = MiscdeviceVTable::<T>::build();
         result
     }