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Message-ID: <20080222235914.GC20829@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:59:14 -0500
From: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sam@...nborg.org,
arjan@...radead.org, gregkh@...e.de, stable@...nel.org,
stable-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] patch
kbuild-allow-fstack-protector-to-take-effect.patch added to
2.6.24-stable tree
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:42:16PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > > I thought that thread was for the much larger patches, not just this
> > > Makefile change.
> >
> > At the least we'll likely want to also pick up the other stack protector fixes
> > that went into .25rc if we turn it on in .24
>
> Hm, that sounds like a new feature :)
>
> I thought the makefile change was just a bugfix in the broken makefile.
Well, it is. But it'll cause it to enable something that has been broken for a while.
FWIW, I think having the stack protector reenabled in -stable is a worthwhile goal,
but only once it's stabilised for a while in the development tree.
My fear by just reenabling this for -stable is that when distros push out updates
based on the latest -stable, we'll see more systems like James' problematic system.
Dave
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