Safety in Kernel Development

[慕冬亮]

Since I knew that Linux kernel didn't accept the pax/grsecurity , but wrote
its own implement, and some linux developers do not have sense of security,
I think linux security will be a problem in the future.
    - mudongliang

2015-08-18 21:45 GMT+08:00 Kenneth Adam Miller <kennethadammiller at gmail.com>
:

> Why? That's what the vast majority of the kernel is written in (besides
> assembler, but what I'm looking for isn't a way to write safe assembler).
> Plus, tons of people in the kernel development community *must* have some
> concern or interest in security. I don't care if the kernel is written in
> C, but I sure would like my kernel module to be safer. If I can get it I
> don't care what language it's in-it just has to work and *be secure*.
>
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 9:40 AM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2015, Kenneth Adam Miller wrote:
>>
>> > Ok- so I know that C is the defacto standard for kernel
>> > development...
>>
>>   and that's probably where you should have stopped typing. :-)
>>
>> rday
>>
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