Illegal use of mem::zeroed()

[RalfJung]

The use of mem::zeroed at

treebitmap/src/tree_bitmap/allocator.rs

Line 195 in 9540ae5

mem::zeroed(),

looks illegal: mem::zeroed may only be used for types that actually allow zero-initialization, and here this is done for any user-controlled type T. So, e.g. if T is a reference, this is UB as references must not be all-zero.

If you just want to write a bunch of zero bytes to memory, I suggest using write_bytes.

[RalfJung]

Heads-up: with rust-lang/rust#66059, this will turn into a panic to protect people from UB. The crater log indicates that the type you are zero-initializing here is &str -- references must indeed never be null.

Cc @JakubOnderka, maintainer of ip_network_table, which according to crater will also be affected when the UB here turns into a panic.

[nico-abram]

This issue is resolved right? It's still open

cc @JakubOnderka , @hroi