From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756370Ab2GFRYV (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:24:21 -0400 Received: from oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com ([67.222.55.9]:45981 "HELO oproxy7-pub.bluehost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750774Ab2GFRYU (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Jul 2012 13:24:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4FF71F1C.4040608@xenotime.net> Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 10:23:40 -0700 From: Randy Dunlap User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110323 Thunderbird/3.1.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jean Delvare CC: LKML , Ingo Molnar , Arjan van de Ven , Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR is no longer experimental References: <1341583705.4655.18.camel@amber.site> In-Reply-To: <1341583705.4655.18.camel@amber.site> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Identified-User: {1807:box742.bluehost.com:xenotime:xenotime.net} {sentby:smtp auth 50.53.38.135 authed with rdunlap@xenotime.net} Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 07/06/2012 07:08 AM, Jean Delvare wrote: > This feature has been around for over 5 years now, so I presume it is > no longer considered experimental. > > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare > Cc: Ingo Molnar > Cc: Arjan van de Ven > Cc: Andi Kleen > --- > Or is there any reason to still consider this an experimental feature? I doubt it, but if it is still experimental, it should also have depends on EXPERIMENTAL and then it would be nice if kconfig (the software) would add the " (EXPERIMENTAL)" tag when it sees such a dependency. > > arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > --- linux-3.5-rc5.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig 2012-06-05 16:22:58.000000000 +0200 > +++ linux-3.5-rc5/arch/x86/Kconfig 2012-07-06 15:32:55.660276577 +0200 > @@ -1525,7 +1525,7 @@ config SECCOMP > If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. > > config CC_STACKPROTECTOR > - bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" > + bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection" > ---help--- > This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This > feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on > -- ~Randy