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RISC-V Changes For Linux 6.13 Deliver Pointer Masking In User-Space
The RISC-V CPU port updates have been sent out for the in-development Linux 6.13 kernel.
Most notable for RISC-V this cycle is bringing user-space pointer masking support. The pointer masking makes use of ignored bits of the effective address on RISC-V platforms and can help with memory safety for user-space applications. This pointer masking support though is disabled by default with user-space must needing to manually enable it.
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