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Benno Lossin a075082a15 rust: pin-init: internal: init: remove #[disable_initialized_field_access]
Gary noticed [1] that the initializer macros as well as the `[Pin]Init`
traits cannot support unaligned fields, since they use operations that
require aligned pointers. This means that any code using structs with
unaligned fields in pin-init is unsound.

By default, the `init!` macro generates references to initialized fields,
which makes the compiler check that those fields are aligned.  However,
we added the `#[disable_initialized_field_access]` attribute to avoid
this behavior in commit ceca298c53 ("rust: pin-init: internal: init:
add escape hatch for referencing initialized fields"). Thus remove the
`#[disable_initialized_field_access]` attribute from `init!`, which is
the only safe way to create an initializer handling unaligned fields.

If support for in-place initializing structs with unaligned fields is
required in the future, we could figure out a solution. This is tracked
in [2].

Reported-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Closes: https://rust-for-linux.zulipchat.com/#narrow/channel/561532-pin-init/topic/initialized.20field.20accessor.20detection/with/576210658 [1]
Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/pin-init/issues/112 [2]
Fixes: ceca298c53 ("rust: pin-init: internal: init: add escape hatch for referencing initialized fields")
Signed-off-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Janne Grunau <j@jannau.net>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260302140424.4097655-1-lossin@kernel.org
[ Adjusted tags and reworded as discussed. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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