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WebAssembly is a better choice for sandboxing kernel code. It has a full formal specification with a mechanized proof of type safety, many high-performance implementations, broad toolchain support, is targetable from many languages, and a capability security model.

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Hardly. For starters, wasm doesn’t guarantee that a piece of code terminates in bound time. There are further security guarantees in ebpf such as any lock acquired must be released.

You can apply additional static checks to Wasm, e.g. control flow analysis, and reject programs without obvious loop bounds or unbalanced locking operations. Or you could apply dynamic techniques like tracking acquired locks and automatically releasing them, or charging fuel (gas). The latter is quite common for blockchain runtimes based on Wasm.

The eBPF termination checker is buggy anyway; you cannot rely on it.

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