Re: [stable] patch kbuild-allow-fstack-protector-to-take-effect.patch added to 2.6.24-stable tree

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:34:07PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:18:08PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
>  > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:06:04PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
>  > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:00:58PM -0800, gregkh@suse.de wrote:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
>  > >  > 
>  > >  >      Subject: kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > to the 2.6.24-stable tree.  Its filename is
>  > >  > 
>  > >  >      kbuild-allow-fstack-protector-to-take-effect.patch
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > A git repo of this tree can be found at 
>  > >  >     http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
>  > > 
>  > > Is this wise given this thread..  http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/22/101    ?
>  > > 
>  > > At least until the problem is understood, not enabling this seems like
>  > > a better option for -stable
>  > 
>  > I thought that thread was for the much larger patches, not just this
>  > Makefile change.
> 
> At the least we'll likely want to also pick up the other stack protector fixes
> that went into .25rc if we turn it on in .24

Hm, that sounds like a new feature :)

I thought the makefile change was just a bugfix in the broken makefile.

thanks,

greg k-h