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Re:The status of Linux kernel hardening by cyphar on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:25AM (#12918169)
Prepare for the lovely blog post from the grsecurity author who is going to proclaim how he is so much smarter than everyone else, and that upstream Linux doesn't know what they're doing.

/sigh

Re:The status of Linux kernel hardening by voidz on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:56AM (#12918300)
What an non-constructive, cynical, depressing response. Grsecurity is a good product, components have been added to the kernel without proper attribution, and although Brad can admittedly add drama, how is this different from the drama your post adds? Pot, meet kettle.
Re:The status of Linux kernel hardening by nwmcsween on Thursday November 10, 2016 @01:55AM (#12918296)
grsec will sadly slowly become irrelevant, they could have worked with mainline but instead acted like little spoiled children.
Re:The status of Linux kernel hardening by micaksica on Thursday November 10, 2016 @02:06AM (#12918339)
I disagree with this statement. grsec has been a proving ground for a lot of hardening technologies throughout the years, many of which are just starting to make it upstream through the Linux kernel political process. As long as the team that works on the grsecurity patchsets continues to innovate, it will not become irrelevant; instead, it will continue to be a testbed for things mainline will pick up and re-implement at their discretion.
Re:The status of Linux kernel hardening by nwmcsween on Friday November 11, 2016 @01:08AM (#12928382)
You seem to think grsec isn't in Linux due to the politics of submitting patches, grsec hasn't submitted piecemeal patches and their attitude is to derail conversations into name-calling. I recommend reading the comments in: http://lwn.net/Articles/663474/ or really anything where grsec team interacts with people. You can be the most intelligent human alive but if you cannot interact with people in a productive way it doesn't matter.