Wait, am I still on LKML? Due to all those emojis, it feels more like a WhatsApp chat. 😄
https://lore.kernel.org/all/ac0HSfV05ppXQKya@hyeyoo/t/#u
Whatever, for a reply to this great patch submission from @vbabka[1] it somehow fits – and made me slime. So thanks, @hyeyoo!
[1] to quote: ""It's a debugging feature [that is removed by this patch]. However, thanks to the advent of LLM-based reviews, we are not adding bugs to the #kernel anymore, so it's unnecessary now.""
Finally, with Clang 22's release, here's v1 of Linux kernel slab cache partitioning with help of Clang's AllocToken feature: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260331111240.153913-1-elver@google.com/
"Separating pointer-containing objects from pointerless objects and data allocations can help mitigate certain classes of memory corruption exploits: attackers who gains a buffer overflow on a primitive buffer cannot use it to directly corrupt pointers or other critical metadata in an object residing in a different, isolated heap region."
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