Re: grsecurity in 2.5?

Chris Wright (chris@wirex.com)
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:04:37 -0700


* Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu) wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 23:37:38 +0200, Zoltan NAGY said:
> > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003, Greg KH wrote:
> > > What's the status of that patch being ported to the LSM interface (which
> > > is already in 2.5)?
> >
> > AFAIK there was a discussion about it, but i dont know what decision has
> > born..
>
> Some parts of grsecurity were trivial to fit into the LSM framework. Other
> parts are basically impossible simply because LSM doesn't hook into the
> code where it's needed....

Yes, hence the lack of motivation to bring over just the portable parts.

thanks,
-chris

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