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Comment by kevincox

3 months ago

This doesn't always protect against out-of-bounds writes. Although if these sentinel values are in read only memory mappings it probably gets pretty close. (Especially if you consider kernel memory corruption a "bitflip".)

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rincebrain  3 months ago

Well, yes, the author described it as "a heuristic", which checking sentinel values would seem to match.

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