linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Add -fno-stack-protector

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Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:06:59 -0700
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu>
Cc:     "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>,
        kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Gabriel C <nix.or.die@...glemail.com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Add -fno-stack-protector

On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:25 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@...m.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> The purgatory Makefile removes -fstack-protector options if they were
> configured in, but does not currently add -fno-stack-protector.

I took this directly, since the build failure seems so annoying if you
happen to have an affected compiler and config.

Maybe that's not very common, but ..

              Linus