lol, grsecurity went fully closed, probably in an attempt to stop the Kernel Self Protection Project from making it obsolete
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What innovation has the Kernel Self Protection brought over Grsec/PaX? I don't really see them as competing
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None. It is a feature by feature (partially implemented) rip off, even acknowledged.
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It includes the important feature of not being run by spender. Also, it's legal (unlike grsec which is a GPL violation) and mergeable.
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Okay, but relevant implies technical merits. Emotional (your beef with spender) or legal (for which there are lawyers) ones are orthogonal
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My beef with spender is irrelevant, but spender's attitude towards pretty much everyone else in kernel dev is relevant, as is licensing.
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Replying to @marcan42 @lazytyped and
Non-technical merits like those are actually critically important to acceptance of a free software project. They can make or break it.
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Sure, but let's not go off topic. The topic was "KSPP making Grsec/PaX irrelevant".I take that you agree these are not competing technically
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My point is that being upstreamed is as much a technical achievement as coming up with the mitigations in the first place.
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E.g. not having to patch my Nvidia driver code and not having it break on every update is a *technical* benefit.
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