The quantum state of Linux kernel garbage collection CVE-2021-0920 (Part I)

Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS

The quick and practical "MSI" hash table

Issue #259

8/11/2022

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Another day, another issue. Lots of garbage collection related stuff. It eez what it eez. I saw someone asked for more low level code stuff. I'll keep that in mind. In the meantime, there's a C article about hash tables here. Anyway, here's the issue.

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The quantum state of Linux kernel garbage collection CVE-2021-0920 (Part I)

Published: 10 August 2022
Tags: android, infosec, linux

Xingyu Jin does "a deep dive into an in-the-wild Android exploit" that is enabled by a race condition in the Linux kernel's garbage collector.


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Ruby Garbage Collection Deep Dive: GC::INTERNAL_CONSTANTS

Published: 1 February 2021
Tags: ruby

Jemma Issroff's six part series covers some of the key aspects of Ruby's garbage collector.


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The quick and practical "MSI" hash table

Published: 8 August 2022
Tags: c, data structures

Chris Wellons presents the method and philosophy for his standard approach to writing hash tables in C.


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