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So, I'm wondering why it's not upstream in mainline.

• yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  Probably the usual reasons; security-minded patchsets make the kernel more attack resistant, but do so by changing things in ways that trade off against performance or compatibility, and Linux is obsessive about compatibility and cares about performance. I'm not going to say that one approach is objectively better or worse; it's just tradeoffs, and upstream/vanilla Linux prefers a different set of tradeoffs than PAX/GRsecurity/etc.
• staticassertion 7y ago
  Politics.
  • justinjlynn 7y ago
    That applies to everything - it's not a reason, it's an excuse. More specifically, I meant - what was the technical rationale for its exclusion?
    • staticassertion 7y ago
      None. It is all politics.