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Bug 1913493 - bmalloc disabled on architectures with 64 KB pages
Summary: bmalloc disabled on architectures with 64 KB pages
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: webkit2gtk3
Version: 33
Hardware: ppc64le
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Michael Catanzaro
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Reported: 2021-01-06 22:58 UTC by Michael Catanzaro
Modified: 2021-06-18 07:18 UTC (History)
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WebKit Project 209360 0 None None None 2021-01-06 22:58:23 UTC

Description Michael Catanzaro 2021-01-06 22:58:24 UTC
WebKit's bmalloc is disabled on ppc64le because the architecture uses 64 KB page size. This means all heap security features are disabled.

In RHEL (but not Fedora), it is also disabled on aarch64.


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