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From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
To: John Mylchreest <johnm@gentoo.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, paulus@samba.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] POWERPC: Fix ppc32 compile with gcc+SSP in 2.6.16
Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 13:10:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060402111002.GA30017@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060402105859.GN16917@getafix.willow.local>

 On Sun, Apr 02, John Mylchreest wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 12:28:15PM +0200, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de> wrote:
> >  On Sun, Apr 02, John Mylchreest wrote:
> > 
> > >   BOOTLD  arch/powerpc/boot/zImage.vmode
> > >   arch/powerpc/boot/prom.o(.text+0x19c): In function `call_prom':
> > >   : undefined reference to `__stack_smash_handler'
> > 
> > Any this strange "security feature" is disabled by defining __KERNEL__?
> 
> That correct, yes. SSP is actually used by quite a lot of vendors, and
> shouldn't be used outside of userland. Typically speaking it isn't, but
> in this case its being leaked.

Either way, file a bugreport upstream to remove the dep on __KERNEL__ in
the gcc patch.

A patch which adds -fno-dumb-feature to CFLAGS may be acceptable.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-02 11:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-01 22:48 [PATCH 1/1] POWERPC: Fix ppc32 compile with gcc+SSP in 2.6.16 John Mylchreest
2006-04-02  8:58 ` Olaf Hering
2006-04-02 10:22   ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-02 10:28     ` Olaf Hering
2006-04-02 10:58       ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-02 11:10         ` Olaf Hering [this message]
2006-04-02 11:20           ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-02 11:42             ` Olaf Hering
2006-04-04  8:57               ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-04  9:41                 ` Olaf Hering
2006-04-04 10:01                   ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-04 10:58                     ` Olaf Hering
2006-04-10  9:01                       ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-02 13:15             ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-02 13:56               ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-02 14:01                 ` Olaf Hering
2006-04-02 14:35                   ` John Mylchreest
2006-04-02 14:49                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-04-02 15:22                   ` John Mylchreest

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