chore: adjudicate 19 bare dead_code allows across six leaf crates

backlog#1823 step 10, batch 1 of the repo-wide item-allow sweep. 227 bare #[allow(dead_code)] remain across 83 files; this takes the 19 in utils, notify, checksums, policy, keystone and trusted-proxies, which are small enough to verify end to end.

Removing all 19 first, before writing any reason, matters: 8 of them suppress nothing. Every allow in utils, one in policy and three in notify sit on items that are publicly reachable, so dead_code never applied to them — the same shape as the swift module and kms's dek.rs. Writing a reason onto a no-op allow would dress noise up as considered judgement, so those are simply deleted.

Three items are genuinely dead and go with their allows: notify's new_target_id_set, the AWS metadata fetcher's get_metadata_token, and policy's empty `pub struct Value;`, none of which is referenced anywhere in the tree.

The remaining eight keep an allow, now saying why the item survives rather than who calls it. Two are exercised only by their own crate's tests (checksums' MD5_HEADER_NAME, policy's is_match_as_pattern_prefix). Four are fields written but never read back: keystone's verify_ssl, parsed from config after the reqwest client is already built; keystone's client handle, which keeps the Keystone client alive for the mapper's lifetime; the AWS IMDS endpoint, kept beside the client while requests build their own URLs; and notify's rules_map, whose own comment retains it for snapshot-time judgements no code performs.

checksums' Md5 needed the most care. Crc32, Sha256 and seven others each have an arm in ChecksumAlgorithm::into_impl, and Md5 has none, which reads like a missing algorithm. It is not: ChecksumAlgorithm has no Md5 variant at all. S3 carries Content-MD5 as its own header, separate from the x-amz-checksum-* family, and this impl exists so both paths share the Checksum trait. The reason records that, so the next reader does not re-derive it.

One measurement note for anyone continuing this sweep: cargo does not re-emit warnings for cached compilations, so a per-crate loop of `cargo check -p <crate>` under-reports. checksums showed zero that way while actually carrying three. Touch the sources and check the crates in one invocation, then attribute by path.

Verification: the six crates are warning-free under cargo check --tests; clippy --lib --tests -D warnings clean; cargo nextest run 1096 passed; make pre-commit exit 0.

Ref rustfs/backlog#1823 (step 10).

crates/checksums/src/http.rs

@@ -38,7 +38,10 @@ pub const XXHASH_3_HEADER_NAME: &str = "x-amz-checksum-xxhash3";
 pub const XXHASH_64_HEADER_NAME: &str = "x-amz-checksum-xxhash64";
 pub const XXHASH_128_HEADER_NAME: &str = "x-amz-checksum-xxhash128";
 
-#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "Content-MD5 wire name, resolved by header_name() below and asserted by this crate's tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub(crate) static MD5_HEADER_NAME: &str = "content-md5";
 
 pub const CHECKSUM_ALGORITHMS_IN_PRIORITY_ORDER: [&str; 5] =

crates/checksums/src/lib.rs

@@ -476,13 +476,19 @@ impl Checksum for Xxhash64 {
     }
 }
 
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 #[derive(Debug, Default)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "Content-MD5 is not a ChecksumAlgorithm variant and has no arm in into_impl: S3 carries it as its own header, separate from the x-amz-checksum-* family. This impl exists so the two paths share the Checksum trait, and is asserted by this crate's tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 struct Md5 {
     hasher: md5::Md5,
 }
 
-#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "Content-MD5 is not a ChecksumAlgorithm variant and has no arm in into_impl: S3 carries it as its own header, separate from the x-amz-checksum-* family. This impl exists so the two paths share the Checksum trait, and is asserted by this crate's tests (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 impl Md5 {
     fn update(&mut self, bytes: &[u8]) {
         use md5::Digest;

crates/keystone/src/client.rs

@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@ pub struct KeystoneClient {
     admin_password: Option<String>,
     admin_project: Option<String>,
     admin_domain: String,
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "TLS verification flag parsed from config; the reqwest client is built before it is consulted, so nothing reads it back (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
     verify_ssl: bool,
     /// Request timeout applied to the underlying HTTP client.
     timeout: std::time::Duration,

crates/keystone/src/identity.rs

@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@ use tracing::{debug, info};
 
 /// Maps Keystone identities to RustFS concepts
 pub struct KeystoneIdentityMapper {
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "keeps the Keystone client alive for the mapper's lifetime; the mapping paths do not call through it yet (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
     client: Arc<KeystoneClient>,
     role_policy_map: HashMap<String, String>,
     enable_tenant_prefix: bool,

crates/notify/src/rules/config.rs

@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ impl RuleEvents for RuleView {
 #[derive(Debug)]
 struct CompiledRules {
     // Keep RulesMap (can be used later if you want to make more complex judgments during the snapshot reading phase)
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "speculative retention: the comment above keeps it for richer snapshot-time judgements that no code performs yet (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
     rules_map: RulesMap,
     // for RulesContainer::iter_rules
     rule_views: Vec<RuleView>,

crates/notify/src/rules/rules_map.rs

@@ -187,7 +187,6 @@ impl RulesMap {
     /// # Parameters
     /// * `event_name` - The EventName from which to remove the rule.
     /// * `pattern` - The pattern of the rule to be removed.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
     pub fn remove_rule(&mut self, event_name: &EventName, pattern: &str) {
         let mut remove_event = false;
 
@@ -209,7 +208,6 @@ impl RulesMap {
     ///
     /// # Parameters
     /// * `event_names` - A slice of EventNames to be removed.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
     pub fn remove_rules(&mut self, event_names: &[EventName]) {
         for event_name in event_names {
             self.map.remove(event_name);
@@ -223,7 +221,6 @@ impl RulesMap {
     /// * `event_name` - The EventName to update.
     /// * `pattern` - The pattern of the rule to be updated.
     /// * `target_id` - The TargetID to be added.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
     pub fn update_rule(&mut self, event_name: EventName, pattern: String, target_id: TargetID) {
         self.map.entry(event_name).or_default().add(pattern, target_id);
         self.total_events_mask |= event_name.mask(); // Update only the relevant bitmask

crates/notify/src/rules/target_id_set.rs

@@ -18,12 +18,6 @@ use rustfs_targets::arn::TargetID;
 /// TargetIDSet - A collection representation of TargetID.
 pub type TargetIdSet = HashSet<TargetID>;
 
-/// Provides a Go-like method for TargetIdSet (can be implemented as trait if needed)
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub(crate) fn new_target_id_set(target_ids: Vec<TargetID>) -> TargetIdSet {
-    target_ids.into_iter().collect()
-}
-
 // HashSet has built-in clone, union, difference and other operations.
 // But the Go version of the method returns a new Set, and the HashSet method is usually iterator or modify itself.
 // If you need to exactly match Go's API style, you can add wrapper functions.

crates/policy/src/policy/function.rs

@@ -219,10 +219,6 @@ impl PartialEq for Functions {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
-#[allow(dead_code)]
-pub struct Value;
-
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use crate::policy::Functions;

crates/policy/src/policy/utils/wildcard.rs

@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 // See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 // limitations under the License.
 
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn is_simple_match<P, N>(pattern: P, name: N) -> bool
 where
     P: AsRef<str>,
@@ -29,7 +28,10 @@ where
     inner_match(pattern, name, false)
 }
 
-#[allow(dead_code)]
+#[allow(
+    dead_code,
+    reason = "prefix-matcher asserted by this file's tests; no production caller yet (backlog#1823)"
+)]
 pub fn is_match_as_pattern_prefix<P, N>(pattern: P, text: N) -> bool
 where
     P: AsRef<str>,

crates/trusted-proxies/src/cloud/metadata/aws.rs

@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ use crate::CloudMetadataFetcher;
 #[derive(Debug, Clone)]
 pub struct AwsMetadataFetcher {
     client: Client,
+    #[allow(
+        dead_code,
+        reason = "IMDS endpoint retained beside the client it configures; requests build their own URLs (backlog#1823)"
+    )]
     metadata_endpoint: String,
 }
 
@@ -46,55 +50,6 @@ impl AwsMetadataFetcher {
             metadata_endpoint: "http://169.254.169.254".to_string(),
         }
     }
-
-    /// Retrieves an IMDSv2 token for secure metadata access.
-    #[allow(dead_code)]
-    async fn get_metadata_token(&self) -> Result<String, AppError> {
-        let url = format!("{}/latest/api/token", self.metadata_endpoint);
-
-        match self
-            .client
-            .put(&url)
-            .header("X-aws-ec2-metadata-token-ttl-seconds", "21600")
-            .send()
-            .await
-        {
-            Ok(response) => {
-                if response.status().is_success() {
-                    let token = response
-                        .text()
-                        .await
-                        .map_err(|e| AppError::cloud(format!("Failed to read IMDSv2 token: {}", e)))?;
-                    Ok(token)
-                } else {
-                    debug!(
-                        event = "trusted_proxies.cloud_metadata",
-                        component = "trusted_proxies",
-                        subsystem = "aws_metadata",
-                        provider = "aws",
-                        operation = "imdsv2_token",
-                        result = "http_error",
-                        status = %response.status(),
-                        "trusted proxy cloud metadata request failed"
-                    );
-                    Err(AppError::cloud("Failed to obtain IMDSv2 token"))
-                }
-            }
-            Err(e) => {
-                debug!(
-                    event = "trusted_proxies.cloud_metadata",
-                    component = "trusted_proxies",
-                    subsystem = "aws_metadata",
-                    provider = "aws",
-                    operation = "imdsv2_token",
-                    result = "request_failed",
-                    error = %e,
-                    "trusted proxy cloud metadata request failed"
-                );
-                Err(AppError::cloud(format!("IMDSv2 request failed: {}", e)))
-            }
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 #[async_trait]

crates/trusted-proxies/src/config/env.rs

@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ pub fn is_env_set(key: &str) -> bool {
 }
 
 /// Returns a list of all proxy-related environment variables and their current values.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn get_all_proxy_env_vars() -> Vec<(String, String)> {
     let vars = [
         ENV_TRUSTED_PROXY_ENABLED,

crates/utils/src/io.rs

@@ -68,7 +68,6 @@ pub async fn read_full_or_eof<R: AsyncRead + Send + Sync + Unpin>(
 
 /// Read exactly buf.len() bytes into buf, or return an error if EOF is reached before any bytes are read.
 /// Like Go's io.ReadFull.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub async fn read_full<R: AsyncRead + Send + Sync + Unpin>(reader: R, buf: &mut [u8]) -> std::io::Result<usize> {
     match read_full_or_eof(reader, buf).await? {
         Some(n) => Ok(n),

crates/utils/src/net.rs

@@ -431,7 +431,6 @@ pub fn parse_and_resolve_address(addr_str: &str) -> std::io::Result<SocketAddr>
     Ok(resolved_addr)
 }
 
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn bytes_stream<S, E>(stream: S, content_length: usize) -> impl Stream<Item = Result<Bytes, E>> + Send + 'static
 where
     S: Stream<Item = Result<Bytes, E>> + Send + 'static,

crates/utils/src/os/fs_type.rs

@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@
 ///
 /// The table follows Linux `include/uapi/linux/magic.h`; filesystem magic
 /// values without a stable Linux uapi source stay `UNKNOWN`.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub(crate) fn get_fs_type(fs_type: u64) -> &'static str {
     // Magic numbers for various filesystems.
     match fs_type {

crates/utils/src/path.rs

@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@ pub fn is_dir_object(object: &str) -> bool {
 ///
 /// If the object name ends with `GLOBAL_DIR_SUFFIX`, it is replaced with a slash.
 /// Otherwise, the name is returned as is.
-#[allow(dead_code)]
 pub fn decode_dir_object(object: &str) -> String {
     if has_suffix(object, GLOBAL_DIR_SUFFIX) {
         format!("{}{}", object.trim_end_matches(GLOBAL_DIR_SUFFIX), SLASH_SEPARATOR)