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On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 1:28 AM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> Since late April, grsecurity upstream has stop making their patches |
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> available publicly. Without going into details, the reason for their |
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> decision revolves around disputes about how their patches were being |
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> (ab)used. |
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> Since the grsecurity patch formed the main core of our hardened-sources |
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> kernel, their decision has serious repercussions for the Hardened Gentoo |
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> project. I will no longer be able to support hardened-sources and will |
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> have to eventually mask and remove it from the tree. |
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> Hardened Gentoo has two sides to it, kernel hardening (done via |
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> hardened-sources) and toolchain/executable hardening. The two are |
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> interrelated but independent enough that toolchain hardening can |
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> continue on its own. The hardened kernel, however, provided PaX |
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> protection for executables and this will be lost. We did a lot of work |
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> to properly maintain PaX markings in our package management system and |
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> there was no part of Gentoo that wasn't touched by issues stemming from |
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> PaX support. |
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> I waited two months before saying anything because the reasons were more |
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> of a political nature than some technical issue. At this point, I think |
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> its time to let the community know about the state of affairs with |
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> hardened-sources. |
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> I can no longer get into the #grsecurity/OFTC channel (nothing personal, |
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> they kicked everyone), and so I have not spoken to spengler or pipacs. |
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> I don't know if they will ever release grsecurity patches again. |
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> My plan then is as follows. I'll wait one more month and then send out |
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> a news item and later mask hardened-sources for removal. I don't |
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> recommend we remove any of the machinery from Gentoo that deals with PaX |
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> markings. |
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> I welcome feedback. |
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As we already contribute to grsec in the past, |
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would be sad to see hardened-sources go away. |
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What about the possibility of Gentoo forking PaX ? |
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-- |
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Thanks, |
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Alice Ferrazzi |
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Gentoo Kernel Project Leader |
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Mail: Alice Ferrazzi <alicef@g.o> |
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PGP: 2E4E 0856 461C 0585 1336 F496 5621 A6B2 8638 781A |