From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@free.fr>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
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James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>, Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>,
Shawn Guo <shawn.guo@linaro.org>,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
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Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
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Subject: Re: [patch core/stackprotector] stackprotector: Fix build when compiler lacks support
Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2014 11:50:08 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C47170.9050702@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFzS2bTXSDabNhsZXhpVWP9toqtubB3jrNVWF-FaQrmz-w@mail.gmail.com>
On 01/01/2014 11:33 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> Ack. Looks good to me. I've wanted this for a long time for other
> reasons, we should finally just do it.
>
Yes, we keep avoiding doing this by layering hack upon hack, but
really... it needs to be done.
The chief objection I've heard is that it makes "make oldconfig"
necessary after a compiler change, but that seems entirely reasonable.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-01 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-19 19:35 [PATCH v5] provide -fstack-protector-strong build option Kees Cook
2013-12-19 19:35 ` [PATCH v5 1/2] create HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR for centralized use Kees Cook
2013-12-20 11:54 ` [tip:core/stackprotector] stackprotector: Unify the HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR logic between architectures tip-bot for Kees Cook
2013-12-19 19:35 ` [PATCH v5 2/2] provide -fstack-protector-strong build option Kees Cook
2013-12-20 11:54 ` [tip:core/stackprotector] stackprotector: Introduce CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG tip-bot for Kees Cook
2013-12-30 21:37 ` [patch core/stackprotector] stackprotector: Fix build when compiler lacks support David Rientjes
2013-12-31 0:45 ` Kees Cook
2014-01-01 0:16 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-01 11:42 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-01 19:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-01 19:50 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2014-01-01 22:28 ` Yann E. MORIN
2014-01-05 22:13 ` Sam Ravnborg
2013-12-31 14:39 ` Arjan van de Ven
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