Archive: https://archive.today/sWj8d From the post: >>With the help of Claude Opus 4.6, the Linux 7.2 kernel added protections to fend off specially crafted or corrupted perf data for the perf tool that could cause a number of issues for the running system. The perf.data output and consumed by Linux's perf performance analyzing tool is a binary format containing performance counter data, CPU events, and other useful data. But to now there hasn't been a good job at hardening it to ensure that nothing goes awry if it's corrupted or manipulated for malicious intent