[PATCH] rust: cred: update AlwaysRefCounted import to sync::aref

Miguel Ojeda miguel.ojeda.sandonis at gmail.com
Sun Aug 17 17:01:06 UTC 2025


On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 1:44 PM Shankari Anand
<shankari.ak0208 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Update the import of `AlwaysRefCounted` in `cred.rs` to use `sync::aref`
> instead of `types`.
>
> This is part of the ongoing effort to move `ARef` and
> `AlwaysRefCounted` to the `sync` module for better modularity.
>
> Suggested-by: Benno Lossin <lossin at kernel.org>
> Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1173
> Signed-off-by: Shankari Anand <shankari.ak0208 at gmail.com>
> ---
> It part of a subsystem-wise split series, as suggested in:
> https://lore.kernel.org/rust-for-linux/CANiq72=NSRMV_6UxXVgkebmWmbgN4i=sfRszr-G+x3W5A4DYOg@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
> This split series is intended to ease review and subsystem-level maintenance.
>
> The original moving patch is here: (commit 07dad44aa9a93)
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=07dad44aa9a93b16af19e8609a10b241c352b440
>
> Gradually the re-export from types.rs will be eliminated in the
> future cycle.

Cc'ing Paul, Serge and -security, just in case.

Thanks!

Cheers,
Miguel



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