dmesg excerpts of the decisive DF-5284 leak runs (no-INVARIANTS kernel, evilsa.ko loaded, usched :1 poc_comp /dev/nsa0, attempt 0 in every run). The [EVILSA] lines are printed by the evilsa MODE SELECT capture handler. run 1 (run.log / run.noinv.log): [EVILSA] sprayed+freed 4096 x 16B chunks (kptr 0xffffffff8260d5c0), 512 ending in 0x10/0x90 freed last (pagecode groom) [EVILSA] MODE SELECT #1 len 28 payload[12..27]: [EVILSA] 10 22 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff c0 d5 60 82 ff ff 01 ff [EVILSA] chunk[1..7] (freelist ptr bytes): 22 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff [EVILSA] msel28=1 last_len=28 poc: attempt 0: MTCOMP ok / "28-byte MODE SELECT captured after 1 attempts" run 2 (run.2.log): [EVILSA] MODE SELECT #1 len 28 payload[12..27]: [EVILSA] 10 20 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff c0 d5 60 82 ff ff 01 ff [EVILSA] chunk[1..7] (freelist ptr bytes): 20 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff run 3 (run.3.log): [EVILSA] MODE SELECT #1 len 28 payload[12..27]: [EVILSA] 10 1e 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff c0 d5 60 82 ff ff 01 ff [EVILSA] chunk[1..7] (freelist ptr bytes): 1e 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff full 28-byte payload (msel_dump, run 3): [EVILSA] last MODE SELECT payload[0..27]: [EVILSA] 00 00 10 08 7f 00 00 00 [EVILSA] 00 00 02 00 10 1e 0b 4f [EVILSA] 00 f8 ff ff c0 d5 60 82 [EVILSA] ff ff 01 ff ff ff ff ff decode of payload[12..27] = the 16 uninitialized ccomp bytes: [12] 0x10 stale pagecode (groomed freelist-linkage low byte) [13..19] 22/20/1e 0b 4f 00 f8 ff ff -> kernel heap pointer 0xfffff8004f0bXXXX (slab freelist linkage; varies per boot exactly as a live heap address does) [20..27] c0 d5 60 82 ff ff 01 ff -> &ev_lock = 0xffffffff8260d5c0 (spray marker; byte [26] = 0x01 is the calg=1 the driver wrote into dconf.sel_comp_alg, page offset 14) INVARIANTS-kernel run (run.inv-kernel.128loop.log) for contrast: (sa0:evilsa0:0:0:0): device does not seem to support compression -> the kernel branched on the uninitialized pagecode byte (forced to 0x7f by the INVARIANTS kmalloc poison), ENODEV, no transmit. post-fix (run.patched.log): 128 attempts, msel28 stays 0, no 28-byte MODE SELECT -- the page bytes are zeroed by M_ZERO.