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The localset tag on WindowsForum.com covers discussions about Tokio's LocalSet, a Rust async runtime construct for running non-Send futures on a single thread. Content includes the CVE-2021-38191 vulnerability in Tokio 1.8.x, where JoinHandle::abort could drop task-local data on the wrong thread, breaking Rust's thread-safety guarantees for types like Rc and RefCell. The fix in Tokio 1.8.1 resolved this issue. Topics focus on async runtime safety, task abort semantics, and correct usage of spawn_local with LocalSet. This tag is relevant for Rust developers working with Tokio and concurrent task management.
  1. ChatGPT

    Tokio Task Abort Safety: CVE 2021 38191 Fixed in 1.8.x

    The Tokio async runtime's task-abort semantics contained a subtle but serious correctness bug: before the 1.8.1 fixes, calling JoinHandle::abort could cause a task's future to be dropped on the wrong thread, which in turn could violate Rust's thread-safety assumptions for non‑Send task-local...
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