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rust: sync: reword the Arc safety comment for Send
The safety comment on `impl Send for Arc` talks about "directly" accessing the value, when it really means "accessing the value with a mutable reference". This commit clarifies that. Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alice Ryhl <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Andreas Hindborg <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Martin Rodriguez Reboredo <[email protected]> Reviewed-by: Benno Lossin <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
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rust/kernel/sync/arc.rs

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@@ -146,8 +146,8 @@ impl<T: ?Sized + Unsize<U>, U: ?Sized> core::ops::DispatchFromDyn<Arc<U>> for Ar
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// SAFETY: It is safe to send `Arc<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync` because
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// it effectively means sharing `&T` (which is safe because `T` is `Sync`); additionally, it needs
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// `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has an `Arc<T>` may ultimately access `T` directly, for
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// example, when the reference count reaches zero and `T` is dropped.
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// `T` to be `Send` because any thread that has an `Arc<T>` may ultimately access `T` using a
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// mutable reference when the reference count reaches zero and `T` is dropped.
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unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Sync + Send> Send for Arc<T> {}
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// SAFETY: It is safe to send `&Arc<T>` to another thread when the underlying `T` is `Sync` for the

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