miniserde
Rust-for-Linux
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726 | 3,797 | |
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7.7 | 0.0 | |
16 days ago | 5 days ago | |
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Apache License 2.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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miniserde
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Hey Rustaceans! Got a question? Ask here (8/2023)!
It's pretty common to avoid macros as they can seem too magical a lot of the time. And with traits, there's experiments like miniserde which specifically avoid monomorphization overhead. I also see people who want to avoid having lots of dependencies relatively often.
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venial 0.1 - A lightweight alternative to syn
Right now, the next step would be to try to reimplement miniserde with venial, and publish benchmarks.
- Rust takes a major step forward as Linux's second official language
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The Serde Rust Framework
The only downside is compile time bloat.
Serde generates heaps and heaps of generic code. This gets optimized away to be very efficient, but it can be quite cumbersome.
Ever tried working on a crate with hundreds or thousands of de/serializable types? Compile times shoot through the roof really quickly.
The maintainer of serde also created `miniserde` [1], which uses dynamic dispatch and can have 4x compile time improvements.
Due to Rusts lack of orphan instances you really depend on a pervasive standard for serializiation which is used by all libraries, so the ecosystem is really locked in to serde by now.
[1] https://github.com/dtolnay/miniserde
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.
What are some alternatives?
nanoserde - Serialisation library with zero dependencies
jakt - The Jakt Programming Language
ComLightInterop - Cross-platform COM interop library for .NET Core 2.1 or newer
gccrs - GCC Front-End for Rust
serde_v8 - Moved to https://github.com/denoland/deno
rfcs - RFCs for changes to Rust
pfr - std::tuple like methods for user defined types without any macro or boilerplate code
rustig - A tool to detect code paths leading to Rust's panic handler
serde - Serialization framework for Rust
dafny - Dafny is a verification-aware programming language
sapio - A Bitcoin Programming Language
PrawnOS - Libre Mainline Kernel and Debian for arm laptops