From: Luis Ressel <aranea@aixah.de>
To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Technical repercussions of grsecurity removal
Date: Mon, 8 May 2017 20:57:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170508205716.0d765a87@gentp.lnet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170508180807.GA18570@g0n.xdwgrp>
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Hi,
I don't have much to add, but I'd like to clear two misunderstandings
here:
On Mon, 8 May 2017 20:08:07 +0200
Miroslav Rovis <miro.rovis@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote:
> And really since late in 2016 no more entries in the Changelog. Pls.
> note that I'm only stating the facts, not complaining.
AFAIK the Changelogs aren't updated anymore (in the whole gentoo tree).
> > * NSA SELinux instead PAX MPROTECT?
> I hope this is a joke. It looks like one, at first sight, but there
> are half a dozen "NSA SELinux" instances to be found in the latest
> hardened-sources.
>
> # grep 'NSA SE' /usr/src/linux/security/selinux/Kconfig
> bool "NSA SELinux Support"
> ...
> #
> (where linux is a hardened-sources installation)
>
> If hardened would be down to SELinux, I wouldn't be hardening any
> more.
SELinux isn't a patch applied by hardened-sources, it's a subsystem of
the mainline kernel. grsec was really the only significant difference
between hardened-sources and gentoo-sources.
Regards,
Luis
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-08 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-01 9:38 [gentoo-hardened] Technical repercussions of grsecurity removal Sven Vermeulen
2017-05-01 9:50 ` Sven Vermeulen
2017-05-01 10:24 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-01 11:00 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-01 12:25 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-01 10:28 ` Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-01 13:58 ` Sven Vermeulen
2017-05-01 14:20 ` SK
2017-05-01 14:53 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-01 15:21 ` SK
2017-05-02 8:28 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-08 18:08 ` Miroslav Rovis
2017-05-08 18:57 ` Luis Ressel [this message]
2017-05-08 20:07 ` Mathias Krause
2017-05-08 20:49 ` Miroslav Rovis
2017-05-08 23:31 ` Miroslav Rovis
2017-05-09 14:28 ` [gentoo-hardened] Unofficial grsec kernel install WAS: " Miroslav Rovis
2017-05-08 21:12 ` [gentoo-hardened] " Andrew Savchenko
2017-05-12 19:10 ` "Tóth Attila"
2017-05-12 23:38 ` Alex Efros
2017-05-13 0:17 ` Max R.D. Parmer
2017-05-02 15:28 ` Luis Ressel
2017-05-02 15:56 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-02 16:02 ` Luis Ressel
2017-05-02 16:59 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-02 17:23 ` "Tóth Attila"
2017-05-02 19:58 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2017-05-02 20:41 ` Alex Efros
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