Article 6JDKB Rust-Written Stateless Codec Drivers Make A Lot Of Sense

Rust-Written Stateless Codec Drivers Make A Lot Of Sense

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When it comes to making use of the Rust programming language within the Linux kernel, one of the areas where it makes a lot of sense is for the video codec drivers given the amount of unknown/untrusted data submitted by user-space for video processing and it being a wide attack surface for bad actors. With the memory safety features of Rust this can be a big benefit to such drivers and Collabora is currently experimenting with a virtual codec driver Rust implementation to prove the concept...
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