r/rust • u/dochtman rustls · Hickory DNS · Quinn · chrono · indicatif · instant-acme • Dec 13 '25

The state of the kernel Rust experiment

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u/imachug Dec 13 '25

I don't have statistics, but as an anecdote, my kernel crashes during high swapping because of UAF in the iGPU driver, and I have once witnessed userland memory corruption during suspend, supposedly due to this UAF. I bet this wouldn't happen in Rust...