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Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add single-threaded path to _int_free


Wilco Dijkstra <Wilco.Dijkstra@arm.com> writes:
> How often do we iterate more than once? And what are the chances that
> when there is contention, the block at the top of the bin is the same
> as the one we're trying to insert but the older one we checked isn't?

Sadly, these are the cases that Bad Guys can create and take advantage
of to infect systems.  Removing a test should never be done without
extreme forethought and consideration.


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