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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 14:47:49 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff99db04-f761-0ea7-5b8c-22d47a9a325f@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <831a1b68-1083-ba04-faff-77267b7b06a1@gentoo.org>

On 06/23/2017 01:49 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
> 
> I do wonder, if the PAX marking logic could detect a running
> non-hardened kernel and therefore silently skip the step ?
> 

If it did that, you'd have to "emerge -e @world" every time you booted
into a hardened kernel after running a vanilla one. To add to the
trouble, that "emerge" would probably fail due to things being killed by
PaX.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-06-23 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-23 16:28 [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream Anthony G. Basile
2017-06-23 17:27 ` William L. Thomson Jr.
2017-06-23 17:49 ` Toralf Förster
2017-06-23 18:08   ` Mike Gilbert
2017-06-23 18:47   ` Michael Orlitzky [this message]
2017-06-23 18:04 ` NP-Hardass
2017-06-23 18:54 ` Alice Ferrazzi
2017-06-23 20:46 ` Sergei Trofimovich

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