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Rust-for-Linux
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The Linux Kernel Prepares for Rust 1.77 Upgrade
Rust is backwards compatible when you stick to stable features, but the kernel uses unstable features that can and do incur breaking changes.
https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux/issues/2
- Rust in Linux Kernel
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Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows driver development in Rust”
> How would this work?
Don't know exactly what you're asking.
> And why would it be a better idea?
Poorly written device drivers are a significant attack vector. It's one of the reasons Linux is now exploring using Rust for its own device drivers.[0] You may be asking -- why Rust and not some other language? Rust has many of the performance and interoperability advantages of C and C++, but as noted, makes certain classes of memory safety issues impossible. Rust also has significant mindshare among systems programming communities.
[0]: https://rust-for-linux.com
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The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide
Ctrl-F "rust"
https://rust-for-linux.com/ links to LWN articles at https://lwn.net/Kernel/Index/#Development_tools-Rust that suggest that only basic modules are yet possible with the rust support in Linux kernels 6.2 and 6.3.
Rust-for-linux links to the Android binder module though:
> Android Binder Driver: This project is an effort to rewrite Android's Binder kernel driver in Rust.
> Motivation: Binder is one of the most security and performance critical components of Android. Android isolates apps from each other and the system by assigning each app a unique user ID (UID). This is called "application sandboxing", and is a fundamental tenet of the Android Platform Security Model.
> The majority of inter-process communication (IPC) on Android goes through Binder. Thus, memory unsafety vulnerabilities are especially critical when they happen in the Binder driver
... "Rust in the Linux kernel" (2021) https://security.googleblog.com/2021/04/rust-in-linux-kernel... :
> [...] We also need designs that allow code in the two languages to interact with each other: we're particularly interested in safe, zero-cost abstractions that allow Rust code to use kernel functionality written in C, and how to implement functionality in idiomatic Rust that can be called seamlessly from the C portions of the kernel.
> Since Rust is a new language for the kernel, we also have the opportunity to enforce best practices in terms of documentation and uniformity. For example, we have specific machine-checked requirements around the usage of unsafe code: for every unsafe function, the developer must document the requirements that need to be satisfied by callers to ensure that its usage is safe; additionally, for every call to unsafe functions (or usage of unsafe constructs like dereferencing a raw pointer), the developer must document the justification for why it is safe to do so.
> We'll now show how such a driver would be implemented in Rust, contrasting it with a C implementation. [...]
This guide with unsafe rust that calls into the C, and then with next gen much safer rust right next to it would be a helpful resource too.
What of the post-docker container support (with userspaces also written in go) should be cloned to rust first?
- Teknisk karrierevej i Danmark som softwareudvikler
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The state of Flatpak security: major Projects are the worst?
Rust-for-Linux issue tracker
- rust devs in a nutshell
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Rustproofing Linux (Part 1/4 Leaking Addresses)
Yes, I definitely agree that it's a problem that pr_info implicitly wraps its arguments in unsafe {}. I wrote my own Pull Request with a trival fix.
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how to compile a rust "hello world" with kernel 6.1?
Note that this template won't work with Linux 6.1, which has very minimal Rust support. You'll want the RustForLinux tree, or maybe Linux 6.2.
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If your dream was to be part of a big project like the linux kernel, what would be the first step if you are already an average programmer?
You can join Rust for Linux zulip chat by requesting invite using the link in https://github.com/Rust-for-Linux/linux 's README.
crates.io
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Migrating a JavaScript frontend to Leptos, a Rust framework
So, be sure to double-check your critical libraries and be sure their alternatives exist in the Rust ecosystem. There’s a good chance the crates you need are available in Rust's crates.io repository.
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Learning Rust: A clean start
The previous section was very simple, this section is also very simple but introduces us to cargo which is Rust's package manager, as a JS dev my mind goes straight to NPM.
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#2 Rust - Cargo Package Manager
Now, there has to be a place where all these packages come from. Similar to npmjs registry, where all node packages are registered, stored and retrieved, Rust also has something called crates.io where many helpful packages and dependencies are registered.
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Rust 🦀 Installation + Hello World
Before proceeding, let's check https://crates.io/, the official Rust package registry.
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Underestimating rust for my Project.
The most thrilling aspect has been the joy of writing the backend. It's like every struct, enum, and method in Rust forms this interconnected Multiverse of code , which you can see in crates.io which is best Documentation experience I Ever Had.
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Top 10 Rusty Repositories for you to start your Open Source Journey
5. Crates.io
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Project Structure Clarification Coming From Python - With Example
When using crates from eg. crates.io, and also things like std and core
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Cargo has never frustrated me like npm or pip has. Does Cargo ever get frustrating? Does anyone ever find themselves in dependency hell?
Vendoring your packages was very tedious to even remotely get to work with Cargo. I spent a very long time getting Cargo to work together with cargo-local-registry. We vendor crates from crates.io and a custom internal registry.
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How did I need to know about feature rwh_05 for winit?
So this is my question: Which way was the right to find it out? There is no info about this feature on crates.io. I also have no clue what exactly it does and why it is named rwh_05.
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15,000 Go Module Repositories on GitHub Vulnerable to Repojacking Attack
Rust does it so much better with https://crates.io . I don't know why Go can't (or won't) do something similar.
What are some alternatives?
jakt - The Jakt Programming Language
docs.rs - crates.io documentation generator
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
plotters - A rust drawing library for high quality data plotting for both WASM and native, statically and realtimely 🦀 📈🚀
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
Cargo - The Rust package manager
rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler
trunk - Build, bundle & ship your Rust WASM application to the web.
dafny - Dafny is a verification-aware programming language
gtk4-rs - Rust bindings of GTK 4
PrawnOS - Libre Mainline Kernel and Debian for arm laptops
Rocket - A web framework for Rust.