rust-osdev / rust-osdev/uefi-rs
Allow building device paths as constants
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Description
Splitting this off from https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/issues/970.
It would be nice to be able to build device paths as global constants as well. This would sidestep the use-after-free issues from nix-community/lanzaboote#194.
Originally posted by @blitz in https://github.com/rust-osdev/uefi-rs/issues/970#issuecomment-1775618414
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Research direction
Start by reading issue #970 and the referenced lanzaboote#194 discussion to understand the device-path lifetime problem. Determine the design needed for device paths to be usable as global constants; done means constant construction avoids the reported use-after-free issue.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- rust
- Domain
- operating-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
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- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100