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Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 13:13:48 +0100
From: Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@...il.com>
To: "kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: Re:
On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 6:33 AM, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com> wrote:
> On 15/11/15 03:59 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>> On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:43 PM, west suhanic <west.suhanic@...il.com> wrote:
>>> Hello All:
>>>
>>> I am a hardened gentoo user. How can we get the grsecurity code into the
>>> kernel?
>>
>> As soon all downsides and drawbacks are identified/resolved.
>> Which basically means that we have to redo a lot (it not all).
>
> You might not be familiar with the grsecurity/PaX features and their
> implementations but lots of people are. It's not unexplored territory
> without known trade-offs. It has active developers who are happy to
> answer questions about it (within reason).
I'll kindly ignore this personal attack.
> I think there's little that would need to be redone. There are many
> things that would need to be renamed and refactored in order to present
> them in a different light to deal with political issues. One good way to
> upstream stuff would be presenting it from the angle that it's useful
> for finding kernel bugs for *everyone* and just accepting that some of
> it is going to be misrepresented (i.e. CONFIG_DEBUG_*).
>
> Approaching this as if it's a technical issue is only going to lead to
> failure. I really can't see Linus and others being okay with any GCC
> plugins with alterations to the semantics of C rather than just codegen
> like the KERNEXEC plugin. Dropping time into extracting stuff like that
> rather than realistic things seems wasteful. If someone puts in the
> effort to do it, submits it and hits a wall then I wouldn't expect them
> to be motivated to do more.
>
> I think there's plenty that could be landed but going directly upstream
> may not be the way to go. I was considering spending time on doing most
> of the small features and submitting them to AOSP. No politics to deal
> with there, only technical issues. If something lands there, it becomes
> a lot easier to upstream it because it becomes part of trying to get
> Android to use a vanilla kernel. Android wants security features and
> Linux isn't delivering, so it might as well start diverging more. For
> example, they recently started improving their ASLR implementation
> towards matching PaX (not there yet). I'm sure they'd take features like
> USERCOPY as-is.
Sorry, I'm not that optimistic as I had already the pleasure to port various
PaX/grsecurity features and also tried to mainline some bits.
But I'm eager to read your patches and will happily contribute.
--
Thanks,
//richard
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