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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by ajdlinux on Sunday June 25, 2017 @10:53PM (#14633711)
The grsecurity team does have some valid criticisms of the upstream community, and of course they've done some brilliant technical work, but spender is unfortunately a pretty toxic community member who puts many upstream kernel devs to shame when it comes to ability to flame.

It's a shame - there's a lot of good stuff in grsec/PaX, but I think the upstream community is better off without the people involved. The KSPP effort to upstream grsec/PaX features is, of course, a good thing.

[disclaimer: upstream developer who lurks on kernel-hardening]

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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by technion on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:59PM (#14633980)
Similarly, I used to run grsec on RedHat once upon a time. But the whole thing just got too hard. When a critical update came, I could get a stock kernel running "yum update", or I could play around building a whole new grsec kernel.

I wish there was a way to take personalities out of this and let mainline merge the useful parts of grsec.

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Re:Linus: Don't bother with grsecurity. Their patches are pu... by OJFord on Tuesday June 27, 2017 @09:24AM (#14645137)
Your bio isn't a disclaimer.
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