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Filesystem drivers in Rust

Filesystem drivers in Rust

Posted Dec 17, 2025 8:09 UTC (Wed) by koflerdavid (subscriber, #176408)
In reply to: Filesystem drivers in Rust by hailfinger
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment

Maliciously corrupted file systems are a significant attack vector that the kernel is only insufficiently protected from. There is a reason why mount privileges are part of root.

Writing file systems is already complicated enough without having to worry about it being malicious. And as we have seen from the security hole in a Rust tar library, merely using Rust is not the solution.


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