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Message-ID: <20080417224908.67cec814@laptopd505.fenrus.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:49:08 -0700
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
Stephen Smalley <sds@...ho.nsa.gov>
Subject: Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:31 -0700
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> I repulled all the trees an hour or two ago, installed everything on
> an 8-way x86_64 box and:
>
>
> stack-protector:
>
> Testing -fstack-protector-all feature
> No -fstack-protector-stack-frame!
> -fstack-protector-all test failed
do you have a stack-protector capable GCC? I guess not.
This is a catch-22. You do not have stack-protector. Should we make that
a silent failure? or do you want to know that you don't have a security
feature you thought you had.... complaining seems to be the right thing to do imo.
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