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by amaccuish 2837 days ago
Does iOS not enforce reasonable memory limits on apps to prevent a panic?
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MBCook 2837 days ago
It does. Your app will get killed. The OS will be fine.

My understanding is this bug uses up GPU memory/contexts, not normal system RAM, and that’s why it becomes an issue.

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amaccuish 2837 days ago
Ahh thank you :)
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swingline-747 2837 days ago
Ohh.. sneaky: a GPU DoS.
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MBCook 2837 days ago
Yeah. Of course it shouldn’t be possible, but I guess no one had thought of it before or they thought the risk was too low because they figured you’d have to make an app to do it not some random HTML on a webpage.
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