GrapheneOS on Nostr: We recently enabled hardware memory tagging (MTE) for Linux kernel after over a year ...
We recently enabled hardware memory tagging (MTE) for Linux kernel after over a year of deploying it for userspace via hardened_malloc. It provides an approximation of memory safety which can be improved over time. It requires hardware support exclusive to 8th/9th gen Pixels.
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