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

[Alice Ryhl]

On Mon, Aug 18, 2025 at 11:22 PM Paul Moore <paul at paul-moore.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2025 at 11:26 PM Serge E. Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 16, 2025 at 05:14:09PM +0530, Shankari Anand wrote:
> > > Update the import of `AlwaysRefCounted` in `cred.rs` to use `sync::aref`
> > > instead of `types`.
> >
> > Thank you for forwarding, Miguel.
> >
> > As far as I can see from the included links, this looks good.
> >
> > > 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>

Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl at google.com>

> > Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serge at hallyn.com>
>
> As mentioned previously, I'm still not well versed in Rust so as long
> as Serge is happy with it, I'm good with it too :)
>
> I'm guessing it probably makes sense to include rust/kernel/cred.rs in
> the creds MAINTAINERS section just as we did (or will do) with the LSM
> Rust shim?

That would make sense to me.

My understanding is that this patch, unlike the pin-init one, is
intended to go through the LSM / CRED tree rather than taking
everything through a shared tree with Acked-bys.

Alice