Memory Tagging Extension on Google Pixel 8: Review

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What you've learned

You should now know how to:

Enable MTE on your Google Pixel 8 smartphone
Understand how MTE works and learn how to make an application crash when it encounters a memory bug
Access the memory bug report
Interpret the memory bug report

Can MTE be enabled on my Google Pixel 8?

Yes

Which of the statements below is false?

MTE's working principle is based on a Lock and Key model.

Tagging memory implements the lock.

Pointers are modified to contain the key.

At runtime the CPU checks that the pointer and the metadata tags match. If so, the application crashes in any device.

Which of the statements below is true?

The bug report is automatically generated everytime the application crashes.

You need to trigger the creation of the bug report using the Bug report option in Developer options.

The bug report is a single file you can visualize directly in our phone.

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