[PATCH] x86: remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Oct 23 2009 - 10:27:31 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ----
arch/x86/Makefile | 1 -
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 07e0114..72ace95 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -1443,12 +1443,8 @@ config SECCOMP

If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.

-config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
- bool
-
config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
- select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
---help---
This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
diff --git a/arch/x86/Makefile b/arch/x86/Makefile
index a012ee8..d2d24c9 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Makefile
+++ b/arch/x86/Makefile
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ ifdef CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
cc_has_sp := $(srctree)/scripts/gcc-x86_$(BITS)-has-stack-protector.sh
ifeq ($(shell $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(cc_has_sp) $(CC) $(biarch)),y)
stackp-y := -fstack-protector
- stackp-$(CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL) += -fstack-protector-all
KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(stackp-y)
else
$(warning stack protector enabled but no compiler support)
--
1.6.2.5


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