rust: str: update c_str! documentation

Now that all literals are C-Strings, update the documentation to explain
that use of this macro should be limited to non-literal strings.

Link: https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/1075
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Alice Ryhl <aliceryhl@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tamir Duberstein <tamird@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-cstr-rename-macro-v2-1-25f7de75944e@kernel.org
[ Apply sentence case to comment. Reword title. - Miguel ]
Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <ojeda@kernel.org>
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Tamir Duberstein
2026-03-15 20:28:45 +01:00
committed by Miguel Ojeda
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@@ -379,19 +379,32 @@ impl AsRef<BStr> for CStr {
}
}
/// Creates a new [`CStr`] from a string literal.
/// Creates a new [`CStr`] at compile time.
///
/// The string literal should not contain any `NUL` bytes.
/// Rust supports C string literals since Rust 1.77, and they should be used instead of this macro
/// where possible. This macro exists to allow static *non-literal* C strings to be created at
/// compile time. This is most often used in other macros.
///
/// # Panics
///
/// This macro panics if the operand contains an interior `NUL` byte.
///
/// # Examples
///
/// ```
/// # use kernel::c_str;
/// # use kernel::str::CStr;
/// const MY_CSTR: &CStr = c_str!("My awesome CStr!");
/// // This is allowed, but `c"literal"` should be preferred for literals.
/// const BAD: &CStr = c_str!("literal");
///
/// // `c_str!` is still needed for static non-literal C strings.
/// const GOOD: &CStr = c_str!(concat!(file!(), ":", line!(), ": My CStr!"));
/// ```
#[macro_export]
macro_rules! c_str {
// NB: We could write `($str:lit) => compile_error!("use a C string literal instead");` here but
// that would trigger when the literal is at the top of several macro expansions. That would be
// too limiting to macro authors.
($str:expr) => {{
const S: &str = concat!($str, "\0");
const C: &$crate::str::CStr = match $crate::str::CStr::from_bytes_with_nul(S.as_bytes()) {