Re: x86: Remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Fri Oct 23 2009 - 10:36:06 EST
* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >From 87296b9275e3561822e1322f9d9aa6c73424e672 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:27:31 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] x86: remove STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
>
> STACKPROTECTOR_ALL has a really high overhead (runtime and stack footprint)
> and is not really worth it protection wise (the normal STACKPROTECTOR is
> in effect for all functions with buffers already), so lets just remove
> the option entirely.
>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 4 ----
> arch/x86/Makefile | 1 -
> 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
Applied, thanks Arjan!
Ingo
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