Filesystem drivers in Rust
Filesystem drivers in Rust
Posted Dec 17, 2025 9:07 UTC (Wed) by taladar (subscriber, #68407)In reply to: Filesystem drivers in Rust by koflerdavid
Parent article: The state of the kernel Rust experiment
Rust implementations can indeed not protect you from bad, ambiguous standards like those two size fields in the tar one. Nor can it protect you from logic bugs.
That does not mean that it doesn't help you find those by saving you effort on all the other security issues though.
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