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Exclusive page-frame ownership

Posted Sep 15, 2016 11:08 UTC (Thu) by spender (guest, #23067)
In reply to: Exclusive page-frame ownership by tao
Parent article: Exclusive page-frame ownership

What does my comment have anything to do with the tired ad hominem you've regurgitated here? We already reviewed this mitigation back when the paper was initially released, and there are good reasons why it's not present in grsecurity. I guess I'll avoid offering any free review or hints here in the future and leave it up to the upstream "experts".

-Brad

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Posted Sep 15, 2016 11:50 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link] (2 responses)

> I guess I'll avoid offering any free review or hints here in the future and leave it up to the upstream "experts".

In the immortal words of _The Critic_ -- "And nothing of value was lost."

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Posted Sep 15, 2016 12:08 UTC (Thu) by spender (guest, #23067) [Link] (1 responses)

You've summed up the entirety of your comments well. Have you ever contributed anything of technical value?

-Brad

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Posted Sep 15, 2016 13:40 UTC (Thu) by pizza (subscriber, #46) [Link]

> You've summed up the entirety of your comments well.

Perhaps, but I'm not claiming that my comments here are of any inherent value, nor am I threatening to deprive LWN readers the awesomeness of my "free review or hints".

> Have you ever contributed anything of technical value?

Why yes, I have:

Two chunks of Linux kernel code bear my name -- One wifi driver that I heavily cleaned up [ie rewrote large chunks of], mainlined and still maintain, and another that I originally wrote but someone else mainlined (after some rewriting).

(So yes, I have first-hand knowledge of just how much work mainlining something can be. Incidentally, the latter bears quite a few similarities to this situation -- Only I had the maturity to not complain about how those folks doing the work I was unwilling to do were somehow doing it all wrong. I even tossed some patches their way to help out)

I'm also a major contributor to Gutenprint, having written drivers for several dozen photo printers.

Beyond that, there's a long tail of mostly-minor contributions to various F/OSS projects. I try to give back whenever possible, and my track record shows that I play well with others.

Any more questions?

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Posted Sep 16, 2016 15:36 UTC (Fri) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646) [Link]

If you could stop mentioning all the time that you are not willing to offer something, that would be even better.

Thanks in advance.