An Experimental Characterization of Combined RowHammer and RowPress Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.13080v2
• Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 01:36:56 GMT
• Title: An Experimental Characterization of Combined RowHammer and RowPress Read Disturbance in Modern DRAM Chips
• Authors: Haocong Luo, Ismail Emir Yüksel, Ataberk Olgun, A. Giray Yağlıkçı, Mohammad Sadrosadati, Onur Mutlu,
• Abstract summary: We characterize a pattern that combines RowHammer and RowPress in 84 real DDR4 DRAM chips from all three major DRAM manufacturers. Our results show that this combined RowHammer and RowPress pattern takes significantly smaller amount of time (up to 46.1% faster) to induce the first bitflip compared to the state-of-the-art RowPress pattern. Based on our results, we provide a key hypothesis that the read disturbance effect caused by RowPress from one of the two aggressor rows in a double-sided pattern is much more significant than the other.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: DRAM read disturbance can break memory isolation, a fundamental property to ensure system robustness (i.e., reliability, security, safety). RowHammer and RowPress are two different DRAM read disturbance phenomena. RowHammer induces bitflips in physically adjacent victim DRAM rows by repeatedly opening and closing an aggressor DRAM row, while RowPress induces bitflips by keeping an aggressor DRAM row open for a long period of time. In this study, we characterize a DRAM access pattern that combines RowHammer and RowPress in 84 real DDR4 DRAM chips from all three major DRAM manufacturers. Our key results show that 1) this combined RowHammer and RowPress pattern takes significantly smaller amount of time (up to 46.1% faster) to induce the first bitflip compared to the state-of-the-art RowPress pattern, and 2) at the minimum aggressor row activation count to induce at least one bitflip, the bits that flip are different across RowHammer, RowPress, and the combined patterns. Based on our results, we provide a key hypothesis that the read disturbance effect caused by RowPress from one of the two aggressor rows in a double-sided pattern is much more significant than the other.

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