Memory Tagging and how it improves C/C++ memory safety
February 26, 2018 Β· Declared Dead Β· π arXiv.org
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Authors
Kostya Serebryany, Evgenii Stepanov, Aleksey Shlyapnikov, Vlad Tsyrklevich, Dmitry Vyukov
arXiv ID
1802.09517
Category
cs.CR: Cryptography & Security
Cross-listed
cs.AR,
cs.PL
Citations
93
Venue
arXiv.org
Last Checked
4 months ago
Abstract
Memory safety in C and C++ remains largely unresolved. A technique usually called "memory tagging" may dramatically improve the situation if implemented in hardware with reasonable overhead. This paper describes two existing implementations of memory tagging: one is the full hardware implementation in SPARC; the other is a partially hardware-assisted compiler-based tool for AArch64. We describe the basic idea, evaluate the two implementations, and explain how they improve memory safety. This paper is intended to initiate a wider discussion of memory tagging and to motivate the CPU and OS vendors to add support for it in the near future.
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