Daniel Micay on Twitter: "It will be awesome when hardware-based memory tagging is available in ARMv8.5 not just as a mitigation but because it will also help purge latent memory corruption bugs. It can catch most non-malicious cases of memory corruption like ASan, but deployed in the production releases." / Twitter

Here are the baseline CTS results mentioned in twitter.com/DanielMicay/st if you're curious: gist.github.com/thestinger/719 I'm looking forward to seeing how much is going to break with the hardened malloc and other mitigations. AOSP has gotten much better from their ASan / UBSan usage.

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Daniel Micay

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Nov 29, 2018

I've finished the time consuming process of setting up new infrastructure for Android 9 and running full Compatibility Test Suite testing of Android Open Source Project builds for various devices. There are a huge number of tests and it takes time to investigate the flaky ones.

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Daniel Micay

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It will be awesome when hardware-based memory tagging is available in ARMv8.5 not just as a mitigation but because it will also help purge latent memory corruption bugs. It can catch most non-malicious cases of memory corruption like ASan, but deployed in the production releases.

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