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Re:Committing to Rust in the Kernel by klysm on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @09:55PM (#41642918)
It's true in the sense that nobody understands it well enough to avoid writing memory safety bugs.
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Re:Committing to Rust in the Kernel by AlotOfReading on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @10:11PM (#41643012)
A lot of kernel resources are managed through infrastructure like devres:

https://docs.kernel.org/6.0/driver-api/driver-model/devres.h...

These days it's entirely possible to write a decent driver with only the foggiest idea of how memory management happens in the kernel.

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