State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

Posted Sep 4, 2016 15:12 UTC (Sun) by mina86 (guest, #68442)
In reply to: State of the Kernel Self Protection Project by spender
Parent article: State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

> it's all ripoffs of grsecurity/PaX

I think you're confused about what free software is.

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State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

Posted Sep 5, 2016 5:20 UTC (Mon) by citypw (guest, #82661) [Link]

Free software will be ok with giving the credits to those who deserves. PaX/Grsecurity has been contributing significant mitigation technology for linux kernel and meanwhile the whole FLOSS community gets benefit from it. I couldn't imagine the world without PaX/Grsecurity especially in those 0ld horrible days. KSPP is a very good starting point to improve vanilla kernel security. But I have to admit that what most work( until now) of KSPP is try to re-build( development from scratch or backport some features from PaX/Grsecurity directly) what PaX/Grsecurity has already done for years:

https://github.com/hardenedlinux/grsecurity-101-tutorials...

Linux foundation may not care about real sense of security. The "work", which can do PR might become the benchmark to them;-)

State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

Posted Sep 9, 2016 14:15 UTC (Fri) by thestinger (guest, #91827) [Link]

You can't strip copyright notices from GPL software, or substantially use the code as a reference without leaving the copyright notice intact.