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authorMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>2025-08-29 21:22:41 +0200
committerMiguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>2025-09-10 00:10:10 +0200
commit58b4aa53606f75c7d6e6cd4710da4d4399e8f667 (patch)
treeae329843a71123a7832940bb3694f1fa923e9c6e /rust/kernel/error.rs
parent4fa9f72d657a76546849068b508a2c82983f8945 (diff)
rust: error: improve `Error::from_errno` documentation
This constructor is public since commit 5ed147473458 ("rust: error: make conversion functions public"), and we will refer to it from the documentation of `to_result` in a later commit. Thus improve its documentation, including adding examples. Reviewed-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/rust/kernel/error.rs b/rust/kernel/error.rs
index db14da976722..edd576b7dfe4 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/error.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/error.rs
@@ -103,8 +103,23 @@ pub struct Error(NonZeroI32);
impl Error {
/// Creates an [`Error`] from a kernel error code.
///
- /// It is a bug to pass an out-of-range `errno`. `EINVAL` would
- /// be returned in such a case.
+ /// `errno` must be within error code range (i.e. `>= -MAX_ERRNO && < 0`).
+ ///
+ /// It is a bug to pass an out-of-range `errno`. [`code::EINVAL`] is returned in such a case.
+ ///
+ /// # Examples
+ ///
+ /// ```
+ /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(-1), EPERM);
+ /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(-2), ENOENT);
+ /// ```
+ ///
+ /// The following calls are considered a bug:
+ ///
+ /// ```
+ /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(0), EINVAL);
+ /// assert_eq!(Error::from_errno(-1000000), EINVAL);
+ /// ```
pub fn from_errno(errno: crate::ffi::c_int) -> Error {
if let Some(error) = Self::try_from_errno(errno) {
error