From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7755B139694 for ; Mon, 1 May 2017 10:29:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5942EE0C63; Mon, 1 May 2017 10:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (woodpecker.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1C302E0C3F for ; Mon, 1 May 2017 10:29:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (unknown [91.246.103.120]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: bircoph) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CCC4F34165C for ; Mon, 1 May 2017 10:28:58 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 13:28:54 +0300 From: Andrew Savchenko To: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Technical repercussions of grsecurity removal Message-Id: <20170501132854.98400aa781d29f13457dacd1@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <20170501093843.GA927@gentoo.org> References: <20170501093843.GA927@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.5.1 (GTK+ 2.24.30; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-hardened@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg="PGP-SHA512"; boundary="Signature=_Mon__1_May_2017_13_28_54_+0300_s1fKQI.tol.Hs6Pa" X-Archives-Salt: 29dfc13e-957d-4e2e-b1be-054c9f431976 X-Archives-Hash: 715fa1cb15b309b62bc279dbb53eca05 --Signature=_Mon__1_May_2017_13_28_54_+0300_s1fKQI.tol.Hs6Pa Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 1 May 2017 09:38:43 +0000 Sven Vermeulen wrote: > Hi all, >=20 > There is a nice debate ongoing on the mailinglist [1] on the topic of > grsecurity's recent decision to no longer provide the test patches to the > public. I'd like to keep the debate on the rationale of it in that > discussion, but focus here on what we, from Gentoo Hardened, now need to = do > or which direction we're going to move forward with. >=20 > [1] > https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-hardened/message/a06145056b167f52c079b= ffd9c9a51ac >=20 > The obvious step is indeed to stop further *current* development on > hardened-sources. Why not support hardened-sources while corresponding vanilla kernels are still supported? E.g. 4.9 is a longterm branch, so we should be able to keep hardened-sources-4.9* up-to-date with vanilla bugfixes. This will give a nice transition period for hardened users. Best regards, Andrew Savchenko --Signature=_Mon__1_May_2017_13_28_54_+0300_s1fKQI.tol.Hs6Pa Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEE63ZIHsdeM+1XgNer9lNaM7oe5I0FAlkHDeYACgkQ9lNaM7oe 5I3H4A/+IRVMDAbJ/pXMlNHNiZvAAhhNsYu9WZfVS1l5h+uv3t2Nauzfe8xh+Vma 5Jvf8VOUUCJbmbB3GdD7TiHaNBxN7Ixf3wh39wfBx5Or4GKwivTYs4AndiD2o9Wa wZtvMyIenyYEkQdg4XMswsY9XC8IBDKHPlhLlKDyMMxvqefKQW3IP5o6q/5wsXlv Ur2KWTSj613OwjWP6ldoPwLViEqlJ9jw5FKiyk08Z1i8tQXbcTNIGNrYLyGntGFg q3xZA48FY++DRHiZefT/ubhS8UmXnhUpyaRM9fXIk7MFpFycQ6Gml/5BPMctgZ2j MQliVw5OyNiqA0GdTBEGvW2Rpq991Cr7nOn38x6897+ziEpNzIBhp8oCPAWMV9Hf KAB+9MPQeb3aNEBer1ks4pJimdKqbr9sOdoQuzHLbKwjYXuYQFFzGu0ccDxc7etn 6FRSEycmegxAoGsm1fZet9jrdLwDKs/RbWxrOwZ2cdwY55lhguuqDinc1Rc/KJUW jXFX2QkkmMAsh7iUgiueT5HdsGbk1wOLMyKondd2oc2b52B/pYnzcaQi4XrI3/qp CR/UbExgcR5MFvPVpAfGsE+bSWARr5ynXFrEtAxS9WwOKUkHaowSCBGXLDLVYKSz tzLcWI3j3H3XH6V1VQG86C3JrjF7BoUMqlX4Ya8G5a1SqX8I8ig= =my30 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature=_Mon__1_May_2017_13_28_54_+0300_s1fKQI.tol.Hs6Pa--