Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:58:52 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [stable] x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL |
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On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 12:23:16AM +0200, Thomas Backlund wrote: > 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>
It doesn't really "fix" anything, so I'd prefer not too.
thanks,
greg k-h
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