Building Faster AMD64 Memset Routines

Posted on Monday January 11, 2021  |  MSRC alerts

Over the past several years, Microsoft has rolled out several changes that result in more memory being zeroed. These mitigations include: The InitAll mitigation which zeros most stack variables Switching most Microsoft kernel code over to the ExAllocatePool2/ExAllocatePool3 API's which zero memory by default. Where possible the compiler will unroll calls to memset. This means …

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