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misaligned pointer in `queue::Queue::get`

Open shinmao opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

The source of unsoundness

https://github.com/gfx-rs/gfx/blob/bc77309afdb0829605982370a3e17382c5968071/src/backend/gl/src/queue.rs#L185-L189 We consider that queue::Queue::get is unsound because the program tried to cast u8 slice to f32/f64/i32 and created a unaligned pointer. The unaligned pointer was passed to slice::from_raw_parts which requires the guarantee of pointer's alignment.

shinmao avatar Sep 12 '23 02:09 shinmao

Thanks for the issue - gfx is in maintainence mode. If you can submit a PR we'll merge it, but otherwise I wouldn't expect this to be fixed.

cwfitzgerald avatar Sep 12 '23 02:09 cwfitzgerald

@cwfitzgerald considering that this is in maintenance mode, is there another library that is actively maintained that is a GPU interface?

maxwellflitton avatar Jan 26 '24 10:01 maxwellflitton

If you want vulkan bindings, use https://crates.io/crates/ash, if you want a safe interface to the gpu, use https://crates.io/crates/wgpu

cwfitzgerald avatar Jan 26 '24 16:01 cwfitzgerald