Oops It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidia's GPU Linux drivers

Re:Oops It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidi... by SchwKatze on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @07:04PM (#45599399)

Rust would have prevented that

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Re:Oops It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidi... by tombert on Wednesday October 15, 2025 @08:47PM (#45600239)

You're not wrong but I think it's sort of irrelevant. Rust is cool but from my understanding, graphics card drivers are almost an entire OS in itself. I don't think Nvidia is writing a new driver for each GPU, I think they're using a core driver codebase and making relevant modifications for each card.

My point is that I suspect that the Nvidia driver is a decades-long project, and dropping everything and rewriting in Rust isn't really realistic .

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Re:Oops It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidi... by fulafel on Thursday October 16, 2025 @12:14AM (#45601395)

"Dropping everything" is not necessary when porting to Rust, it can be done incrementally.

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Re:Oops It's a kernel stack use-after-free: Exploiting Nvidi... by pjmlp on Thursday October 16, 2025 @02:11AM (#45601967)

Which is what Microsoft and Google have been doing.

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