security things in Linux v5.2

Previously: v5.1. Linux kernel v5.2 was released last week! Here are some security-related things I found interesting: page allocator freelist randomization While the SLUB and SLAB allocator freelists have been randomized for a while now, the overarching page allocator itself wasn’t. This meant that anything doing allocation outside of the kmem_cache/kmalloc() would have deterministic placement […]