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On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 16:16:46 +0300 Alex Efros wrote: |
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> Hi! |
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> On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 04:00:39PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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> > The only way to preserve this functionality in the long run is to |
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> > port it to the mainline kernel. This will not be easy, most likely |
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> > not everything will be accepted, some stuff will have to be |
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> > reimplemented using another approaches, etc. |
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> We had 16 years to do this with help of GrSec/PaX developers. It wasn't |
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> happened, and it's unlikely happens now unless some huge company decide to |
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> spend a lot of resources for this. |
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There was not enough motivation for this. Why to invest resources |
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into porting if it works the way it is? Now situation is different, |
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so we'll see what follows. |
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BTW a number of features were ported to or reimplemented in the |
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mainline kernel: ASLR, MAC, auditing, ptrace snooping protection. |
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Probably many more, I haven't studies this in detail. |
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Best regards, |
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Andrew Savchenko |
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