ladybird/Userland/Applications/Assistant
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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CMakeLists.txt Base: Add icons for Assistant 2023-04-07 11:44:23 +01:00
main.cpp LibJS: Never give back virtual memory once it belongs to a cell type 2023-12-31 15:35:56 +01:00
Providers.cpp Everywhere: Rename {Deprecated => Byte}String 2023-12-17 18:25:10 +03:30
Providers.h Everywhere: Rename {Deprecated => Byte}String 2023-12-17 18:25:10 +03:30