Addressing Security Concerns and Skepticism Surrounding io_uring
By
nromiun
Half-baked but well-meaning. A passing snack.
Summary
The article discusses the reputation of io_uring in terms of security issues and the changes made in newer kernels to address these concerns. It also mentions the author's experience with promoting an open-source io_uring runtime and the skepticism from developers.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIt's not secret that the initial async offload design in io_uring was not great, which is why 5.10-stable and all later kernels changed the thread model for that to not use kthreads at all.
My hope is that this reputation will go away eventually, as
every time I try to shill it, developers will simply scoff at io_uring, saying, "isn't io_uring horribl..."
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