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Re: [PATCH 2/2] malloc: make malloc fail with requests larger than PTRDIFF_MAX
I think this is more a kernel matter: The kernel should create a
PROT_NONE mapping spanning two pages in the middle of the address
space, for those architectures where this mapping can actually be
created (so not x86-64, for example). This could be controlled by a
personality flag. (It wouldn't have to be a PROT_NONE mapping, just
something that can only be overridden using MAP_FIXED.)
On the other hand, this is primarily a C/C++ language issue (and a GCC
problem), so maybe it's not appropriate to change kernel behavior
because userspace could execute code written in other languages and
compiled by other compilers.