[PATCH] rust: macros: allow non-ASCII characters in `authors`
From: Thiébaud Weksteen <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-17 05:11:52
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Luis Chamberlain, Petr Pavlu, Daniel Gomez, Sami Tolvanen, Miguel Ojeda, Linus Torvalds
Module authors may have non-ASCII characters in their names. In C,
`MODULE_AUTHOR` allows arbitrary string literals which are emitted as
raw UTF-8 bytes into the `.modinfo` section, and multiple in-tree
modules use non-ASCII author names.
Originally, the single `author` field permitted arbitrary string literals
including non-ASCII characters. When support for multiple authors was
introduced in commit 38559da6afb2 ("rust: module: introduce `authors`
key"), it reused the `expect_string_array` helper that had originally been
added for module aliases. Because that helper enforced an ASCII check,
`authors` inadvertently became restricted to ASCII-only string literals.
Later, when the macro parsing was rewritten to use `syn` in commit
c578ad703ae9 ("rust: macros: use `syn` to parse `module!` macro"), this
restriction was carried over by using AsciiLitStr in `authors` type.
Change the element type of `authors` in `ModuleInfo` from `AsciiLitStr`
to `LitStr` so that UTF-8 author names are permitted.
Fixes: 38559da6afb2 ("rust: module: introduce `authors` key")
Signed-off-by: Thiébaud Weksteen <redacted>
---
rust/macros/lib.rs | 2 +-
rust/macros/module.rs | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/rust/macros/lib.rs b/rust/macros/lib.rs
index 24f96feaeb34..ea2e232b61b1 100644
--- a/rust/macros/lib.rs
+++ b/rust/macros/lib.rs@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ /// # Supported argument types /// - `type`: type which implements the [`Module`] trait (required). /// - `name`: ASCII string literal of the name of the kernel module (required). -/// - `authors`: array of ASCII string literals of the authors of the kernel module. +/// - `authors`: array of string literals of the authors of the kernel module. /// - `description`: string literal of the description of the kernel module. /// - `license`: ASCII string literal of the license of the kernel module (required). /// - `alias`: array of ASCII string literals of the alias names of the kernel module.
diff --git a/rust/macros/module.rs b/rust/macros/module.rs
index bc7027f8dbb2..0a7b9e24c960 100644
--- a/rust/macros/module.rs
+++ b/rust/macros/module.rs@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ pub(crate) struct ModuleInfo { type_: Type, license: AsciiLitStr, name: AsciiLitStr, - authors: Option<Punctuated<AsciiLitStr, Token![,]>>, + authors: Option<Punctuated<LitStr, Token![,]>>, description: Option<LitStr>, alias: Option<Punctuated<AsciiLitStr, Token![,]>>, firmware: Option<Punctuated<AsciiLitStr, Token![,]>>,
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