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

[cl333r]

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?

[phoronix]

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...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?pag...l-Farewell-MPX