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Hardened allocator designed for modern systems. It has integration into Android's Bionic libc and can be used externally with musl and glibc as a dynamic library for use on other Linux-based platforms. It will gain more portability/integration over time.

15 mentions on Hacker News by 11 people: 4 stories, 11 comments · first 2019-06-10 · latest 2025-11-08

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  1. …It would probably be less expensive in terms of time and would help fix existing software. [0]: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc
    comment by mk89 · 2025-11-08 · in Why is Zig so cool?
  2. …and other internal stuff. [1] https://grapheneos.org/features#exploit-protection [2] https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc
    comment by Andromxda · 2025-11-01 · in Leaker reveals which Pixels are vulnerable to Cellebrite phone hacking
  3. …have different tags, so unless the vuln allows you to skip ahead you'll always trigger a fault. [0] https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc/blob/7481c8857...
    comment by Tharre · 2025-07-28 · in Samsung Removes Bootloader Unlocking with One UI 8
  4. …process resource limits. FWIU hardened_malloc groups and thereby contains allocations by size. https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc There is a reason that EVM and eWASM have costed opcodes and do not have socket libraries…
    comment by westurner · 2024-07-30 · in RestrictedPython
  5. …4. Just check the commit logs in any of the grapheneOS repos. For example https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc
    comment by jacooper · 2024-01-28 · in Serious New Warning as Google AI Targets Billions of Private Messages
  6. …-Wl,--no-copy-dt-needed-entries LDFLAGS_HMALLOC := -L/usr/local/lib -lhardened_malloc # see https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc don't get security advise from random strangers like me on HN, also don't forget to always ship code…
    comment by DyslexicAtheist · 2021-11-11 · in Hardening ELF binaries using Relocation Read-Only (2019)
  7. …harder we will succeed. [1]: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/base/a... [2]: https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc
    comment by pcwalton · 2021-07-21 · in A case against security nihilism
  8. …the same as what Daniel Micay has written extensively on in the rational for hardened_malloc ( https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc ) - unsynchronized per-thread state inherently sacrifices global consistency for performance and…
    comment by dalias · 2020-05-06 · in Why does musl make my Rust code so slow?
  9. …includes sub-projects including standalone projects like https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor and https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc that are portable to other operating systems. This also applies to a lot of work that's under…
    comment by strcat · 2019-06-11 · in GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility
  10. …of the OS could eventually go away too. I'd recommend checking out the standalone projects like https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc and https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor for an idea of what the project is focused on doing.…
    comment by strcat · 2019-06-10 · in GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility
  11. …back up and running. Most of the initial focus after the disaster was on standalone projects like https://github.com/GrapheneOS/hardened_malloc and https://github.com/GrapheneOS/Auditor . It took a long time to get things back up and…
    comment by strcat · 2019-06-10 · in GrapheneOS – A privacy and security-focused mobile OS with Android compatibility