sys-kernel/grsecurity-sources available!

Is known that the grsecurity project since few weeks made available the grsecurity patches only for their customers. In the meantime some people made their fork of the latest publicly available patches.

At Gentoo, for some reasons (which I respect) explained by the news item and on the mailing lists, the maintainer decided to drop the hardened-sources package at the end of September 2017

Then, I decided to make my own ebuild that uses the Genpatches plus the Unofficial forward ports of the last publicly available grsecurity patch.

Before you wondering about the code of the ebuild, let me explain the logic used:

1) The ebuild was done in this way because the version bump should result in a copy-paste on the ebuild side.
2) I don’t use the GENPATCHES variable from the kernel eclass because of the previously explained point 1.
3) I generate the tarball via a bash script which takes the genpatches, take the unofficial-grsecurity-patches and deletes the unwanted patches from the genpatches tarball (i.e. in hardened-sources we had UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE=”1500_XATTR_USER_PREFIX.patch 2900_dev-root-proc-mount-fix.patch”).
4) I don’t use the UNIPATCH_EXCLUDE variable because because of the previously explained point 3.

Don’t expect a version bump on each minor release unless there are critical bugs and/or dangerous security bugs. So please not file version bump requests on bugzilla.

If you have any issue regarding grsecurity itself, please file a bug on the github issue tracker and if you will mention the issue elsewhere, please specify that the issue is with the unofficial grsecurity port. This will avoid to “damage” the grsecurity image/credibility.

The ebuild is available into my overlay
If you have trouble on how to install that ebuild, please follow the layman article on our wiki, basically you need:

root ~ $ layman -S && layman -a ago

USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK 😉

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