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      Intel Adapting Linux's LAM In Preparing For ChkTag

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March 2026

    Last year AMD and Intel as part of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group announced ChkTag for x86 memory tagging across processors to better fight buffer overflows and use-after-free errors. In preparing for ChkTag with future processors, Intel has begun adapting their Linear Address Masking (LAM) support to more nicely jive with it...