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Who the fuck is this little shit? Can't they even be a little considerate towards rust? Just because they have 15 years worth of inertia for C doesn't mean they can close their eyes and say "nope, I'm not interested". I do not see how the kernel can survive without making rust a first class citizen
It’s Ted Ts’o, the maintainer of the ext4 filesystem amongst other things.
Though you’re still accurate despite his seniority.
There's really only one valid response to Ted Ts'o:
If you think you can do better with C, prove it.
CVE-2024-42304 — crash from undocumented function parameter invariants
CVE-2024-40955 — out of bounds read
CVE-2024-0775 — use-after-free
CVE-2023-2513 — use-after-free
CVE-2023-1252 — use-after-free
CVE-2022-1184 — use-after-free
CVE-2020-14314 — out of bounds read
CVE-2019-19447 — use-after-free
CVE-2018-10879 — use-after-free
CVE-2018-10878 — out of bounds write
CVE-2018-10881 — out of bounds read
CVE-2015-8324 — null pointer dereference
CVE-2014-8086 — race condition
CVE-2011-2493 — call function pointer in uninitialized struct
CVE-2009-0748 — null pointer dereference
You seem really invested in pointing out those shortcomings. I respect that.
Arrogant hypocrites are a pet peeve of mine. If someone is going to act like progressive technology changes are beneath them and unnecessary, they should be able to put their money where their mouth is.
Somebody needs to send a public email to the kernel mailing lists with this
How many vulnerabilities have the kernel Rust team introduced in the same time period on the same code?
Let me know when you find one?
Memory ownership isn't the only source of vulnerabilities. It's a big issue, sure, but don't think rust code is invulnerable.
Of course. Rust isn't immune to logic errors, off-by-one mistakes, and other such issues. Nor is it memory safe in
unsafeblocks.Just by virtue of how memory safety issues account for 50%+ of vulnerabilities, it's worth genuinely considering as long as the bindings don't cause maintainability issues.
The bindings cause maintainability issues. That's the problem.