linux-kernel - Re: Rust kernel policy

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Message-ID: <20250220095521.GP53094@unreal>
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:55:21 +0200
From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@...nel.org>
To: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@....org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>, Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...dia.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees@...nel.org>,
	Miguel Ojeda <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
	rust-for-linux <rust-for-linux@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ksummit@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: Rust kernel policy

On Wed, Feb 19, 2025 at 12:52:14PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On 2/19/25 12:46 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > I do feel that new drivers written in Rust would help with the
> > vulnerabilities that new drivers usually add to the kernel.
> 
> For driver developers it is easier to learn C than to learn Rust. I'm
> not sure that all driver developers, especially the "drive by"
> developers, have the skills to learn Rust.

>From what I saw, copy-paste is a classical development model for new
drivers. Copy-paste from C drivers is much more easy than from Rust
ones, simply because there are much more C drivers.

Thanks

> 
> Bart.
>