rust: device: implement Device::as_bound()

Provide an unsafe functions for abstractions to convert a regular
&Device to a &Device<Bound>.

This is useful for registrations that provide certain guarantees for the
scope of their callbacks, such as IRQs or certain class device
registrations (e.g. PWM, miscdevice).

Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250713182737.64448-2-dakr@kernel.org
[ Remove unnecessary cast(). - Danilo ]
Signed-off-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/device.rs b/rust/kernel/device.rs
index d527ceef829e..b6b81546a0da 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/device.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/device.rs
@@ -60,6 +60,25 @@ impl Device {
         // SAFETY: By the safety requirements ptr is valid
         unsafe { Self::as_ref(ptr) }.into()
     }
+
+    /// Convert a [`&Device`](Device) into a [`&Device<Bound>`](Device<Bound>).
+    ///
+    /// # Safety
+    ///
+    /// The caller is responsible to ensure that the returned [`&Device<Bound>`](Device<Bound>)
+    /// only lives as long as it can be guaranteed that the [`Device`] is actually bound.
+    pub unsafe fn as_bound(&self) -> &Device<Bound> {
+        let ptr = core::ptr::from_ref(self);
+
+        // CAST: By the safety requirements the caller is responsible to guarantee that the
+        // returned reference only lives as long as the device is actually bound.
+        let ptr = ptr.cast();
+
+        // SAFETY:
+        // - `ptr` comes from `from_ref(self)` above, hence it's guaranteed to be valid.
+        // - Any valid `Device` pointer is also a valid pointer for `Device<Bound>`.
+        unsafe { &*ptr }
+    }
 }
 
 impl Device<CoreInternal> {