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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
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>     * 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