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The Android ION memory allocator

Posted Mar 14, 2012 17:01 UTC (Wed) by zengtm (subscriber, #74989)
In reply to: The Android ION memory allocator by cliveb
Parent article: The Android ION memory allocator

You cannot get physical address from user space: not secure if you think about it.

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Posted Jan 4, 2013 13:29 UTC (Fri) by vkkashyap (guest, #88623) [Link]

Thanks for nice article.

- What type of security risks do you foresee?
- Any other reason(s) you see for limiting physical addresses api to kernel space?