How's it abusing anything? It's an Android app that works fine with the default Android memory allocator.
replyThe AOSP memory allocator is seldom the one used by OEMs.
replyReally? They're not using Scudo? The hardened_malloc used in GrapheneOS has a bunch of performance issues that were trade-offs against security. Every other major android distribution uses scudo as far as I know. Which OEMs are you thinking of?
replyEdit: Did some research after writing this? It appears that Samsung may be still using jemalloc, albeit a newer version than the one from the Android 11 days.
That doesn't necessarily mean it isn't being abusive, just that said allocator tolerates it okay.
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