[$] Progress on defeating lifetime-end pointer zapping
Date:
Tue, 07 Oct 2025 15:04:16 +0000
Description:
Paul McKenney gave a remote presentation at Kangrejos2025 following up on the talk he gave last year about the
lifetime-end-pointer-zapping problem: certain common patterns for multithreaded code are
technically undefined behavior, and changes to the C and C++ specifications will be needed to correct that. Those changes could also impact code that uses unsafe Rust, such as the kernel's Rust bindings. Progress on the problem has been slow,
but McKenney believes that a solution is near at hand.
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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1038757/
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