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by lyu07282 801 days ago
Invalid memory write apparently: https://www.mail-archive.com/valgrind-users@lists.sourceforg... The valgrind "fix" was to disable ifunc which disabled the backdoor so the errors went away.

The slowness derived from all the symbol and instruction lookups it did afaik

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Oxide and Friends interviewed Andres Freund for their show on Wednesday where he discussed the discovery, including the slowness from all the symbol translations

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0C04JlCpMFe07C1XCswbZ9?si=B...

Not everyone has Spotify, better just link their own site where you can play it directly: https://oxide.computer/podcasts/oxide-and-friends/1843393
Handier for sure, but not on my clipboard