Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757931AbZLEUeM (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:34:12 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755903AbZLEUeJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:34:09 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:33904 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754826AbZLEUeI (ORCPT ); Sat, 5 Dec 2009 15:34:08 -0500 Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 11:58:52 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Backlund Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , stable@kernel.org Subject: Re: [stable] x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL Message-ID: <20091205195852.GC21172@kroah.com> References: <200911021859.nA2Ix4cB023712@hera.kernel.org> <4AF9E7D4.9080309@mandriva.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4AF9E7D4.9080309@mandriva.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1497 Lines: 35 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 > > AuthorDate: Fri Oct 23 07:31:01 2009 -0700 > > Committer: Ingo Molnar > > 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 > > Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven > > Cc: Eric Sandeen > > LKML-Reference: <20091023073101.3dce4ebb@infradead.org> > > Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 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@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/