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A comment on size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer. Parent comment

Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by baby on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:52PM (#27896159)
I wish clippy had a lint against downcasts specifically. I aso like that rust has no “int” type
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Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by jamincan on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @10:05AM (#27906460)
It does, you just need to enable it. There are a bunch of other cast-related lints as well that are allow by default.

https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/v0.0.212/#cast_possi...

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Re:size_t-to-int vulnerability in Linux’s filesystem layer by baby on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:24PM (#27909236)
Oh wow, didn’t know about that one. Is this new?
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