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Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 17:12:56 +0100 From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org> To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com> Subject: Re: Regression [Was: Boot hang with stack protector on x86_64] On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 07:43:08AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > > > This is a regression. Can you please revert this commit. > > Not really. The thing is, CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR has never done anything > at all, now it does, and it shows that it never worked. And this made a machine non-bootable that could boot before. > > So the commit that made it do something shouldn't be reverted, but > CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR should be marked BROKEN, because it obviously is > broken right now. > > But keeping the config option, and just not making it do anything is > misleading and wrong. > > So just something like this? To make sure normal people don't enable it.. Whatever is fine with me - I hope Ingo & Co fixes the root cause soon so we can get the right fix in. Sam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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