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SubjectRe: x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
I think this one should go to 2.6.31.x too ...

> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/linus/14a3f40aafacde1dfd6912327ae14df4baf10304
> Commit: 14a3f40aafacde1dfd6912327ae14df4baf10304
> Parent: 02dd0a0613e0d84c7dd8315e3fe6204d005b7c79
> Author: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
> AuthorDate: Fri Oct 23 07:31:01 2009 -0700
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> CommitDate: Fri Oct 23 16:35:23 2009 +0200
>
> x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
>
> STACKPROTECTOR_ALL has a really high overhead (runtime and stack
> footprint) and is not really worth it protection wise (the
> normal STACKPROTECTOR is in effect for all functions with
> buffers already), so lets just remove the option entirely.
>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
> LKML-Reference: <20091023073101.3dce4ebb@infradead.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ----
> arch/x86/Makefile | 1 -
> 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index 07e0114..72ace95 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1443,12 +1443,8 @@ config SECCOMP
>
> If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
>
> -config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
> - bool



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