Re: hardened-sources-3.10.x and long-term plans

On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 11:14:44AM +0200, Andreas Prieß wrote:
> Hei!
> 
> I see that hardened-sources-3.10.10 and 3.10.11 were removed because of
> bug #485120.
> 
> I just wanted to note that for me the currently stable 3.10.1-r1 has a
> reproducible kernel panic while booting on my AMD FX-8150 (something
> with init of timer systems IIRC), but 3.9.9. and 3.10.10/11 boot and run
> without a problem, so I never cared to report this.
> 
> Since the 3.10 kernel line is the 10th long-term stable release
> according to wikipedia I had hoped I could stick with it for a while.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel#Maintenance
> 
> Are there any plans to keep 3.10 around for some time in Gentoo
> hardened? If so it would be nice to get 3.10.11 back in the unstable
> tree for the people not affected by bug #485120.
> 
> In any case, thanks to the people providing gentoo hardened!


I hope it's ok to answer for the Gentoo Hardened team (since I'm just a user):

Grsec upstream won't support 3.10.x but the coming longterm ubuntu kernel (most
likely someting around 3.13.x or the like. That will be the next Gentoo
longterm kernel too, I presume.
IIRC there ma be a 3.10.x longterm release with hardened patches and backports
but not from the official grsec/PaX upstream but by ncopa (iirc again for
Alpine Linux). The Github Repo is here:
https://github.com/ncopa/linux-stable-grsec/tree/linux-3.10.y-grsec

WKR
Hinnerk

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