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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:58:52 -0800 From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> To: Thomas Backlund <tmb@...driva.org> Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, stable@...nel.org Subject: Re: [stable] x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL 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@...radead.org> > > AuthorDate: Fri Oct 23 07:31:01 2009 -0700 > > Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.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@...hat.com> > > Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@...hat.com> > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> > > Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...hat.com> > > LKML-Reference: <20091023073101.3dce4ebb@...radead.org> > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> It doesn't really "fix" anything, so I'd prefer not too. thanks, greg k-h -- 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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