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From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 16 Jun 2020 17:06:59 -0700
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/purgatory: Add -fno-stack-protector
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
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On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 3:25 PM Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.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