It's Time To Say Farewell To MPX In The Linux Kernel

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It's Time To Say Farewell To MPX In The Linux Kernel

05 December 2018, 02:50 PM

Phoronix: It's Time To Say Farewell To MPX In The Linux Kernel

We knew MPX support was on its way out of the kernel especially after GCC dropped its compiler-side support for it. It looks now like the Memory Protection Extensions support will be removed from Linux 4.21...

It's Time To Say Farewell To MPX In The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

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05 December 2018, 08:36 PM

Not trolling, but:

MPX support was introduced with Skylake processors and designed to offer better security by providing checks for pointer references at run-time to prevent possible buffer overflows.

Does Rust partially or fully take care of this?
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