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Granted, I was mostly shit posting. But in all seriousness: wouldn’t Rust prevent that kind of exploit by inherent design?

Due to Rust’s ownership semantics, when we free a value, we relinquish ownership on it, which means subsequent attempts to use the value are no longer valid.

https://stanford-cs242.github.io/f18/lectures/05-1-rust-memory-safety.html

And that kids, is why we are pushing for Rust in the Kernel