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Supporting Miguel Ojeda’s Work on Rust in the Linux Kernel (Prossimo blog)
Thursday June 17, 2021. 08:17 PM , from LWN.net
The Prossimo project has announced
that it has contracted with Miguel Ojeda to work on Rust in the Linux kernel for the next year. Prossimo is a new name for the memory-safety projects being run by the Internet Security Research Group (ISRG), which is the organization behind the Let's Encrypt certificate authority (CA) project. Google provided the funds to enable Ojeda to work full-time on the project starting back in April. The Linux kernel is at the heart of the modern Internet, from servers to client devices. It’s on the front line for processing network data and other forms of input. As such, vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel can have a wide-ranging impact, putting security and privacy for people, organizations, and devices at risk. Since it’s written largely in the C language, which is not memory-safe, memory safety vulnerabilities such as buffer overflows and use-after-frees are a constant concern. By making it possible to write parts of the Linux kernel in Rust, which is memory-safe, we can entirely eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities from certain components, such as drivers. We have previously covered another Prossimo project, which provides funding for Rustls development, as well as Ojeda's work on Rust in the kernel.
https://lwn.net/Articles/860160/rss
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