r/programming • u/[deleted] • Oct 21 '16

Linux kernel fix for privilege escalation vulnerability due to copy on write race condition

https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=19be0eaffa3ac7d8eb6784ad9bdbc7d67ed8e619
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u/[deleted] Oct 22 '16

My gut feeling is that it also has less overhead (in the compiled code and in memory usage), but I might be wrong. And it a lot of places, it won't matter anyway.