Re: XATTR_PAX migration

Alex Efros <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.hardened
Organization http://powerman.name/
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
Hi!

On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 09:30:56AM -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> That is, can I disable PT_PAX, enable XATTR_PAX, reboot, and run
> migrate-pax? Or might that cause problems?

You can migrate with just one reboot, but order of actions is different:

1. Build new kernel with PT_PAX disabled and XATTR_PAX enabled.
2. Run `migrate-pax -m`.
3. Reboot using new kernel.

I'm not really sure, but you may also need to add PAX_MARKINGS="XT" into
/etc/make.conf.

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			WBR, Alex.
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