rust: transmute: add `as_bytes` method for `AsBytes` trait

Every type that implements `AsBytes` should be able to provide its byte
representation. Introduce the `as_bytes` method that returns the
implementer as a stream of bytes, and provide a default implementation
that should be suitable for any type that satisfies `AsBytes`'s safety
requirements.

[acourbot@nvidia.com: use fully qualified `core::mem::size_of_val` to
build with Rust 1.78.]

Reviewed-by: Danilo Krummrich <dakr@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <lossin@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Acked-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250801-as_bytes-v5-1-975f87d5dc85@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Alexandre Courbot <acourbot@nvidia.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/rust/kernel/transmute.rs b/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
index 1c7d43771a37..a2d8f39182b2 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/transmute.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,17 @@ impl_frombytes! {
 ///
 /// Values of this type may not contain any uninitialized bytes. This type must not have interior
 /// mutability.
-pub unsafe trait AsBytes {}
+pub unsafe trait AsBytes {
+    /// Returns `self` as a slice of bytes.
+    fn as_bytes(&self) -> &[u8] {
+        // CAST: `Self` implements `AsBytes` thus all bytes of `self` are initialized.
+        let data = core::ptr::from_ref(self).cast::<u8>();
+        let len = core::mem::size_of_val(self);
+
+        // SAFETY: `data` is non-null and valid for reads of `len * sizeof::<u8>()` bytes.
+        unsafe { core::slice::from_raw_parts(data, len) }
+    }
+}
 
 macro_rules! impl_asbytes {
     ($($({$($generics:tt)*})? $t:ty, )*) => {