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* Anthony G. Basile schrieb am 02.09.15 um 18:13 Uhr: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> So by now most people have heard the news that the Grsecurity/PaX team |
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> are no longer going to be making their stable patches available. The |
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> reason is that they are in dispute with a certain embedded systems |
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> vendor and those negotiations broke down. So they decided to make their |
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> stable patches only available to the sponsors. [1] |
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> |
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> What does this mean for Gentoo? Up until now I have been maintaining |
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> both the grsec upstream stable and testing patchsets in our |
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> hardened-sources. Currently the upstream stable kernels are 3.2.71 and |
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> 3.14.51 and the testing are 4.1.6. In about one week, the 3.2.71 and |
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> 3.14.51 patchsets will no longer be available and I'll continue pushing |
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> out the 4.1.6. Unfortunately the testing patchset is precisely as the |
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> name suggests --- for testing and not production. For the embedded |
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> systems company this will be the kiss of death because those patches are |
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> not suitable for long term. For Gentoo it will mean that I will have to |
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> be more vigilant about bugs and trying to stick with a well known kernel |
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> before moving on. You can still use these kernels in production, but |
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> you must be carefull about instabilities as upstream pushes out |
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> experimental feature that may oops or panic. Keep older kernel images |
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> around and revert if it doesn't work. Look to this list for |
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> announcements about more serious issues like things that can cause data |
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> loss. |
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> I'm hoping that once this company feels the sting of what has just |
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> happened, they'll come back to the table and talk with Grsec/PaX people. |
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> They won't be able to ship boards with grsec anymore because its not so |
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> easy to switch out a kernel on a board! If they ship a board with a |
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> bug, they loose. We just reboot :) |
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> [1] https://grsecurity.net/ |
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Can't Gentoo be a sponsor? I think we could easly croudfund a |
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sponsorship. |
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This would help Gentoo and Grsecurty/PaX but OTOH that vendor might just |
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use the gentoo kernel if they not already did so. |
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Thoughts? |
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