[PATCH 0/6] rust: binder: reduce `as` casts

From: Tamir Duberstein

Date: Fri May 22 2026 - 13:14:12 EST


Follow up on the treewide Clippy lint series [1]. The Rust Binder
driver retains local allows for `clippy::ptr_as_ptr`,
`clippy::ref_as_ptr`, `clippy::as_underscore`, and
`clippy::cast_lossless` even though those lints are enabled for the
rest of the kernel.

Fix the Binder violations and remove those allows one lint at a time.
The first two patches reduce related `as` casts outside those lint
enablements: use the strict provenance APIs for Binder
pointer-to-integer conversions now that they are available at the Rust
MSRV, and transmute embedded transaction data directly instead of
round-tripping a reference through raw pointer casts.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250615-ptr-as-ptr-v12-0-f43b024581e8@xxxxxxxxx [1]
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Tamir Duberstein (6):
rust: binder: use strict provenance APIs
rust: binder: transmute transaction data
rust: binder: enable `clippy::ptr_as_ptr` lint
rust: binder: enable `clippy::ref_as_ptr` lint
rust: binder: enable `clippy::as_underscore`
rust: binder: enable `clippy::cast_lossless`

drivers/android/binder/allocation.rs | 4 ++--
drivers/android/binder/defs.rs | 7 ++-----
drivers/android/binder/freeze.rs | 2 +-
drivers/android/binder/node.rs | 12 ++++++------
drivers/android/binder/node/wrapper.rs | 2 +-
drivers/android/binder/page_range.rs | 8 ++++----
drivers/android/binder/process.rs | 12 ++++++------
drivers/android/binder/rust_binder_main.rs | 10 ++--------
drivers/android/binder/thread.rs | 24 +++++++++++++-----------
drivers/android/binder/trace.rs | 2 +-
drivers/android/binder/transaction.rs | 12 ++++++------
11 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)
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base-commit: 5d6919055dec134de3c40167a490f33c74c12581
change-id: 20260522-binder-strict-provenance-077c5eddc943

Best regards,
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Tamir Duberstein <tamird@xxxxxxxxxx>