> We have to admit that exploiting this requires a fairly specific situation in which there is a data race we could trigger and some structs with function pointers around.
I would note that Java is designed to run untrusted code, so fat pointers would be unacceptable as the attacker could easily craft the code required to trigger the race. Go does not claim to provide sandboxing of untrusted programs.
https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m...
> We have to admit that exploiting this requires a fairly specific situation in which there is a data race we could trigger and some structs with function pointers around.