On 03/08/2016 07:58 AM, David Miller wrote:

From: Khalid Aziz <redacted>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2016 13:41:39 -0700

quoted

Shared data may not always be backed by a file. My understanding is
one of the use cases is for in-memory databases. This shared space
could also be used to hand off transactions in flight to other
processes. These transactions in flight would not be backed by a
file. Some of these use cases might not use shmfs even. Setting ADI
bits at virtual address level catches all these cases since what backs
the tagged virtual address can be anything - a mapped file, mmio
space, just plain chunk of memory.

Frankly the most interesting use case to me is simply finding bugs
and memory scribbles, and for that we're want to be able to ADI
arbitrary memory returned from malloc() and friends.

I personally see ADI more as a debugging than a security feature,
but that's just my view.

This is certainly a major use of the feature. The Solaris folks have 
made some interesting use of it here:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37069_01/html/E37085/gphwb.html

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