Supporting Miguel Ojeda’s Work on Rust in the Linux Kernel (Prossimo blog)

The
that it has contracted with Miguel Ojeda to work on Rust in the Linux kernel
for the next year. Prossimo is a new name for the memory-safety
projects being run by the certificate authority
(CA) project. Google provided the funds to enable Ojeda to work full-time
on the project starting back in April.
"The Linux kernel is at the heart of the modern Internet, from
servers to client devices. It’s on the front line for processing network
data and other forms of input. As such, vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel
can have a wide-ranging impact, putting security and privacy for people,
organizations, and devices at risk. Since it’s written largely in the C
language, which is not memory-safe, memory safety vulnerabilities such as
buffer overflows and use-after-frees are a constant concern. By making it
possible to write parts of the Linux kernel in Rust, which is memory-safe,
we can entirely eliminate memory safety vulnerabilities from certain
components, such as drivers." We have previously covered another
Prossimo project, which .