On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:35:00AM +0300, Igor Stoppa wrote:

Some of the data structures used in list management are composed by two
pointers. Since the kernel is now configured by default to randomize the
layout of data structures soleley composed by pointers, this might
prevent correct type punning between these structures and their write
rare counterpart.

'might' doesn't really work for me. Either it does or it does not.