Gentoo Archives: gentoo-hardened

From: Paige Thompson <erratic@××××××××××.sx>
To: gentoo-hardened@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Fwd: issues with gamepad on hardened
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 09:52:35
Message-Id: 54954669.8030401@yourstruly.sx
In Reply to: [gentoo-hardened] Re: Fwd: issues with gamepad on hardened by Paige Thompson
1 On 12/20/14 09:43, Paige Thompson wrote:
2 > On 12/20/14 09:40, Jiri Kosina wrote:
3 >> On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, Jiri Kosina wrote:
4 >>
5 >>>> yes the hid_sony driver is buggy and the hardening makes it visible. It
6 >>>> passes structures on stack (as parameters to hid_hw_raw_request() to
7 >>>> HID/USB as DMA-able buffers. These structures must be allocated via
8 >>>> kmalloc() or USB allocation primitives.
9 >>> This has already been fixed in Linus' tree for 3.9-rc1.
10 >> 3.19-rc1, sorry for the typo. The commit in question was 9b2b5c9a79.
11 >>
12 > Hahaha, I was about to say...
13 >
14 > Interesting! Thanks again everyone for your help I really appreciate it.
15 >
16 > -Paige
17 >
18
19 Well and it looks like I am SOL until grsec gets a version bump, lol.
20 Otherwise I was about to add an ebuild in my overlay for it. I'm kind of
21 looking forward to it actually, I want to check out nftables... not that
22 I couldn't just grab 3.19 sources and compile it I just don't want to
23 leave hardened-land I guess.
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26 https://grsecurity.net/test/grsecurity-3.0-3.17.7-201412170700.patch
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28 PS: Anyone have any idea how grsec versioning works? will they start
29 supporting the 3.19 branch anytime soon?