alt Hacker NewsI recommend you read Greg Koah-Hartman's thread instead of this article: https://social.kernel.org/notice/B1JLrtkxEBazCPQHDM
> Rust is is not a "silver bullet" that can solve all security problems, but it sure helps out a lot and will cut out huge swatches of Linux kernel vulnerabilities as it gets used more widely in our codebase.
> That being said, we just assigned our first CVE for some Rust code in the kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025121614-CVE-2025-68260-558d@gregkh/ where the offending issue just causes a crash, not the ability to take advantage of the memory corruption, a much better thing overall.
> Note the other 159 kernel CVEs issued today for fixes in the C portion of the codebase, so as always, everyone should be upgrading to newer kernels to remain secure overall.
> > That being said, we just assigned our first CVE for some Rust code in the kernel: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2025121614-CVE-2025-68260-558d@g... where the offending issue just causes a crash, not the ability to take advantage of the memory corruption, a much better thing overall.
That indicates that Greg Koah-Hartman has a very poor understanding of Rust and the _unsafe_ keyword. The bug can, in fact, exhibit undefined behavior and memory corruption.
His lack of understanding is unfortunate, to put it very mildly.