From 2381d973b1c14ad8312275a88baab3317aefa959 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Micay Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2018 18:55:31 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] expand on metadata address space security --- README.md | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index fe4c55b..41a0a56 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ allocation and then unmapped on free. size class regions interspersed with guard pages * Zero size allocations are memory protected * Protected allocator metadata - * Address space for metadata is never used for allocations and vice versa + * Address space for metadata is entirely reserved during initialization and + never reused for allocations or anything else * [implementing stronger protection is in-progress] * Extension for retrieving the size of allocations with fallback to a sentinel for pointers not managed by the allocator