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Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() and family
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2025 10:47:21 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e019c59a-ba8b-ec04-dc5b-923cf9dd9d9c@gentwo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202510071001.11497F6708@keescook>
On Tue, 7 Oct 2025, Kees Cook wrote:
> But all of that is orthogonal to just _having_ the type info available.
iOS did go the path of creating basically one slab cache for each
"type" of kmalloc for security reasons.
See https://security.apple.com/blog/towards-the-next-generation-of-xnu-memory-safety/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-07 17:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-15 3:15 [PATCH v4 0/2] " Kees Cook
2025-03-15 3:15 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] compiler_types: Introduce __flex_counter() " Kees Cook
2025-03-15 4:53 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-03-15 18:34 ` Kees Cook
2025-03-15 19:47 ` Miguel Ojeda
2025-03-15 21:06 ` Kees Cook
2025-03-17 9:26 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-03-17 9:43 ` Przemek Kitszel
2025-03-17 16:22 ` Kees Cook
2025-03-15 3:15 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] slab: Introduce kmalloc_obj() " Kees Cook
2025-03-15 5:18 ` Gustavo A. R. Silva
2025-03-15 18:02 ` Randy Dunlap
2025-03-15 18:39 ` Kees Cook
2025-03-15 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-03-15 18:56 ` Kees Cook
2025-03-15 19:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2025-10-07 2:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-10-07 17:17 ` Kees Cook
2025-10-07 17:47 ` Christoph Lameter (Ampere) [this message]
2025-10-07 18:18 ` Marco Elver
2025-10-08 4:20 ` Kees Cook
2025-10-08 7:49 ` Vegard Nossum
2025-10-09 12:07 ` Marco Elver
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