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[PATCH v2 2/6] ci: check formatting of our Rust code

From
Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date
Oct 8, 2025, 06:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20251008-b4-pks-ci-rust-v2-2-d556ee83c381@pks.im>
In-Reply-To
<20251008-b4-pks-ci-rust-v2-0-d556ee83c381@pks.im>

Introduce a CI check that verifies that our Rust code is well-formatted. This check uses `cargo fmt`, which is a wrapper around rustfmt(1) that executes formatting for all Rust source files. rustfmt(1) itself is the de-facto standard for formatting code in the Rust ecosystem.

The rustfmt(1) tool allows to tweak the final format in theory. In practice though, the Rust ecosystem has aligned on style "editions". These editions only exist to ensure that any potential changes to the style don't cause reformats to existing code bases. Other than that, most Rust projects out there accept this default style of a specific edition.

Let's do the same and use that default style. It may not be anyone's favorite, but it is consistent and by making it part of our CI we also enforce it right from the start.

Note that we don't have to pick a specific style edition here, as the edition is automatically derived from the edition we have specified in our "Cargo.toml" file.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
---
 .github/workflows/main.yml | 15 +++++++++++++++
 .gitlab-ci.yml             | 11 +++++++++++
 ci/install-dependencies.sh |  5 +++++
 ci/run-rust-checks.sh      | 12 ++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 43 insertions(+)
diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index 393ea4d1cc..9e36b5c5e3 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -458,6 +458,21 @@ jobs:
     - run: ci/install-dependencies.sh
     - run: ci/run-static-analysis.sh
     - run: ci/check-directional-formatting.bash
+  rust-analysis:
+    needs: ci-config
+    if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes'
+    env:
+      jobname: RustAnalysis
+      CI_JOB_IMAGE: ubuntu:rolling
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    container: ubuntu:rolling
+    concurrency:
+      group: rust-analysis-${{ github.ref }}
+      cancel-in-progress: ${{ needs.ci-config.outputs.skip_concurrent == 'yes' }}
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+    - run: ci/install-dependencies.sh
+    - run: ci/run-rust-checks.sh
   sparse:
     needs: ci-config
     if: needs.ci-config.outputs.enabled == 'yes'
diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index f7d57d1ee9..a47d839e39 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -212,6 +212,17 @@ static-analysis:
     - ./ci/run-static-analysis.sh
     - ./ci/check-directional-formatting.bash
 
+rust-analysis:
+  image: ubuntu:rolling
+  stage: analyze
+  needs: [ ]
+  variables:
+    jobname: RustAnalysis
+  before_script:
+    - ./ci/install-dependencies.sh
+  script:
+    - ./ci/run-rust-checks.sh
+
 check-whitespace:
   image: ubuntu:latest
   stage: analyze
diff --git a/ci/install-dependencies.sh b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
index 645d035250..a24b07edff 100755
--- a/ci/install-dependencies.sh
+++ b/ci/install-dependencies.sh
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ StaticAnalysis)
 	sudo apt-get -q -y install coccinelle libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev \
 		libexpat-dev gettext make
 	;;
+RustAnalysis)
+	sudo apt-get -q -y install rustup
+	rustup default stable
+	rustup component add rustfmt
+	;;
 sparse)
 	sudo apt-get -q -y install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev \
 		libexpat-dev gettext zlib1g-dev sparse
diff --git a/ci/run-rust-checks.sh b/ci/run-rust-checks.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..082eb52f11
--- /dev/null
+++ b/ci/run-rust-checks.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+. ${0%/*}/lib.sh
+
+set +x
+
+if ! group "Check Rust formatting" cargo fmt --all --check
+then
+	RET=1
+fi
+
+exit $RET
-- 
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