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Date:   Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:15:45 +0200
From:   Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To:     Arvind Sankar <nivedita@alum.mit.edu>
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On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 08:43:01AM -0400, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> You need STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG -- I was testing with defconfig and the
> option is enabled by default.

And you need to write those things in the commit messages.

Please, for the future, always make sure that all required ingredients
for triggering a bug are documented in the commit message, before
sending a fix. Jörg and I were both scratching heads on how you're
reproducing this.

Thx.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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