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serenity/Userland/Libraries/LibJS/Heap/BlockAllocator.h
Andreas Kling b6d4eea7ac LibJS: Never give back virtual memory once it belongs to a cell type
Instead of returning HeapBlock memory to the kernel (or a non-type
specific shared cache), we now keep a BlockAllocator per CellAllocator
and implement "deallocation" by basically informing the kernel that we
don't need the physical memory right now.

This is done with MADV_FREE or MADV_DONTNEED if available, but for other
platforms (including SerenityOS) we munmap and then re-mmap the memory
to achieve the same effect. It's definitely clunky, so I've added a
FIXME about implementing the madvise options on SerenityOS too.

The important outcome of this change is that GC types that use a
type-specific allocator become immune to use-after-free type confusion
attacks, since their virtual addresses will only ever be re-used for
the same exact type again and again.

Fixes #22274
2023-12-31 15:35:56 +01:00

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/*
* Copyright (c) 2021-2023, Andreas Kling <kling@serenityos.org>
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
*/
#pragma once
#include <AK/Vector.h>
#include <LibJS/Forward.h>
namespace JS {
class BlockAllocator {
public:
BlockAllocator() = default;
~BlockAllocator();
void* allocate_block(char const* name);
void deallocate_block(void*);
private:
Vector<void*> m_blocks;
};
}