State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

Posted Sep 13, 2016 12:40 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946)
In reply to: State of the Kernel Self Protection Project by paulj
Parent article: State of the Kernel Self Protection Project

> However, doesn't the fact we're discussing the work of a paid group to unpick PaXTeam's code and upstream suggest that it might be a good idea to also fund PaXTeam too?

A commercial organization is far more likely to fund developers who have a history of pushing code upstream and are not antagonistic with that community of developers. Linux kernel developers have historically not been very welcoming to contributions that harden the kernel and omitting info on vulnerabilities they know about, so it isn't surprising to see that has been a constant source of friction but here we are now.