Improve the safety and security of the Physical Pointer Abstraction
Open
@sangho2 is already working on this.
Since Feb 5, 2026.
target-lvbs
- Dominant language
- Rust
- Stars
- 2.7k
- Forks
- 144
- Avg merge
- 12h 21m
- Merged PRs (30d)
- 146
Description
Physical pointer abstraction that the LVBS platform currently provides is unsafe. We should revisit its design. Also, we need to implement some other mechanisms to make it safe and secure including physical address range locking and page fault handler with `memcpy_fallible` #637
Related PR: #632
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Assessment
This issue has not been assessed yet.