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 <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
AuthorDate: Fri Oct 23 07:31:01 2009 -0700
Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
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 <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxx>
LKML-Reference: <20091023073101.3dce4ebb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
It doesn't really "fix" anything, so I'd prefer not too.