Re: 2.6.17-mm5 -- Busted toolchain? -- usr/klibc/exec_l.c:59: undefined reference to `__stack_chk_fail'

H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-02T17:38:52Z

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>
>> Does this mean that you don't want to see these fno-stack-protector
>> patches go into Andrew's tree?
>
> long term.. no. Because I want to enable stack-protector for the kernel
> (I have patches for that; all it needs is a 5 line gcc patch to make it
> work) as debug option at least (and if the perf impact isn't too bad,
> distros and security sensitive people can enable it always).
>

Obviously, but at that time we should enable -fno-stack-protector vs
-fstack-protector as appropriate.

-hpa