Re: Rust kernel policy

Martin Uecker
2025-02-20T07:11:10Z

Am Mittwoch, dem 19.02.2025 um 06:39 +0100 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 07:04:59PM -0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 04:58:27PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> I'm all for moving our C codebase toward making these types of problems
> impossible to hit, the work that Kees and Gustavo and others are doing
> here is wonderful and totally needed, we have 30 million lines of C code
> that isn't going anywhere any year soon. That's a worthy effort and is
> not going to stop and should not stop no matter what.

It seems to me that these efforts do not see nearly as much attention
as they deserve.

I also would like to point out that there is not much investments
done on C compiler frontends (I started to fix bugs in my spare time
in GCC because nobody fixed the bugs I filed), and the kernel
community also is not currently involved in ISO C standardization.

I find this strange, because to me it is very obvious that a lot more
could be done towards making C a lot safer (with many low hanging fruits),
and also adding a memory safe subset seems possible.

Martin