linux-kernel - Re: [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup

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Message-Id: <200711290232.47141.ak@suse.de>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 02:32:46 +0100
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup


>     * drop support for stack-protector (does it really help? do people
>       use it?)

AFAIK we only ever had a single classical stack buffer overflow in the kernel.
It certainly doesn't seem to be a common security problem it is solving.

-Andi
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