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Re:Exploiting a heap overflow in the FreeBSD wi-fi stack by trasz on Monday June 20, 2022 @10:01AM (#31810455)
I’m not sure where the legend about softupdates being more complicated then journaling came from, but even comparing number of lines of code between SU and XFS journaling is enough to disprove it.
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Re:Exploiting a heap overflow in the FreeBSD wi-fi stack by naniwaduni on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @03:16AM (#31821114)
The difficulty is not that there's too much code.
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Re:Exploiting a heap overflow in the FreeBSD wi-fi stack by trasz on Tuesday June 21, 2022 @04:26AM (#31821628)
The difficulty is allegedly that the mechanism is too complex. Which seems to be just an urban legend.
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