Re: [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup

Andi Kleen
2007-11-29T01:33:01Z

> * drop support for stack-protector (does it really help? do people
> use it?)

AFAIK we only ever had a single classical stack buffer overflow in the kernel.
It certainly doesn't seem to be a common security problem it is solving.

-Andi