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Linux 6.12-rc5 Disabling Intel's Linear Address Masking "LAM" Due To Security Concerns
Intel merged Linear Address Masking into the Linux kernel last year as a means of allowing user-space to store metadata within some bits of pointers without masking it out before use
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