grsecurity forums

by **blackmage** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 5:33 am

Sorry if the question has been asked, but is there any dev for the Linux Security Module of kernel 2.5 ?

if not, why ? waiting to be stable or LSM quiet not adapted to grsecurity patch ? (not any critiscm, only informations)

by **spender** » Mon Sep 30, 2002 3:06 pm

This has been discussed many times before, but I'll discuss it again. For the unforseeable future, I will not be integrating with LSM. I'm also not officially supporting 2.5. 2.6, however, will be supported. Merging everything to LSM would take lots of work on my part, and in the end it would still not be any friendlier for the end user. To use the features of PaX the kernel will still have to be patched (there's things you just can't do with a module-based system). There's also things in our ACL system that can't be done through modules, so LSM in general is not good for what we need to do. Since it doesn't make things easier for me, it doesn't make things easier for you, I don't plan on integrating any time soon.

-Brad