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There is Subgraph that is going to keep maintaining 4.9.X LTS branch |
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with grsec & there is minipli[1] that is going to forward 4.9.X LTS |
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branch with grsec. |
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Would be great to join forces to keep 4.9.X LTS alive while porting |
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features upstream. |
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1. |
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https://github.com/minipli/linux-unofficial_grsec/tree/linux-4.9.x-unofficial_grsec |
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On 05/01/2017 03:58 PM, Sven Vermeulen wrote: |
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> On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 01:28:54PM +0300, Andrew Savchenko wrote: |
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>>> The obvious step is indeed to stop further *current* development on |
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>>> hardened-sources. |
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>> Why not support hardened-sources while corresponding vanilla |
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>> kernels are still supported? E.g. 4.9 is a longterm branch, so we |
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>> should be able to keep hardened-sources-4.9* up-to-date with |
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>> vanilla bugfixes. This will give a nice transition period for |
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>> hardened users. |
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> Transition to what exactly? |
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> There is one suggestion that mentions we would join forces with other |
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> projects "out there" to keep supporting the latest PaX patches. But this |
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> will require knowledgeable resources with enough time to do the necessary |
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> support on it. |
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> In my humble opinion, this is an effort which is not to be underestimated. |
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> Maintaining the upstream-provided patches within Gentoo is already an |
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> endeavour, and now we're talking about even taking on the patch content |
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> itself as well. |
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> If we have enough volunteers to do so, then let's do it. At least we can |
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> then have something for users to look forward to. If not, then the current |
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> long-term branch is also the latest, and the "transition period" is to allow |
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> users to move to a perhaps lesser kernel-hardened environment. |
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> Wkr, |
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> Sven Vermeulen |
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