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Re: More CONFIG_VMAP_STACK vulnerabilities, refcount_t UAF, and an ignored Secure Boot bypass / rootkit method


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds () linux-foundation org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2017 18:04:00 -0700

On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 5:50 PM, Brad Spengler <spender () grsecurity net> wrote:

BTW, we're happy to go toe-to-toe with you here in public on actual facts
instead of pathetic ad hominems.

Quite frankly, I'd much rather see *you* actually send in patches that
are acceptable for inclusion, something you've never done.

As it is, other people have tried to clean up parts of the grsecurity
patches, and tried to make them acceptable.

Wouldn't it be nice if you actually tried to make the baseline actually better?

Please.

                Linus


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