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Tracking trust with Rust in the kernel
The Linux kernel has to handle many different sources of data that should not be trusted: user [...]
That work is now on its fourth revision, and Lossin has asked kernel developers to experiment with it and see where problems remain, making this a good time to look at the proposed API. For a custom type T, an implementation of Validate<S> contains the logic needed to turn an Untrusted<S> into a plain T. Lossin isn't totally happy with that API, though, and wants to find time to improve it. Greg Kroah-Hartman, who has been enthusiastic about the idea of marking input from user space in the past, asked for Lossin to add an example of a driver using Untrusted.
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