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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:48:08
Message-Id: ff99db04-f761-0ea7-5b8c-22d47a9a325f@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-project] The status of grsecurity upstream and hardened-sources downstream by "Toralf Förster"
1 On 06/23/2017 01:49 PM, Toralf Förster wrote:
2 >
3 > I do wonder, if the PAX marking logic could detect a running
4 > non-hardened kernel and therefore silently skip the step ?
5 >
6
7 If it did that, you'd have to "emerge -e @world" every time you booted
8 into a hardened kernel after running a vanilla one. To add to the
9 trouble, that "emerge" would probably fail due to things being killed by
10 PaX.