set scope of planned metadata protection

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Daniel Micay 2018-10-18 20:33:48 -04:00
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@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ was a bit less important and if a core goal was finding latent bugs.
* Allocator state is located within a dedicated region with high entropy
randomly sized guard regions around it
* [in-progress] Protection via Memory Protection Keys (MPK) on x86\_64
* [implementing stronger state protection is in-progress]
* [future] Protection via MTE on ARMv8.5+
* Extension for retrieving the size of allocations with fallback
to a sentinel for pointers not managed by the allocator
* Can also return accurate values for pointers *within* small allocations