Re: propolice support for linux

[Andi Kleen]

Han Boetes <han@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> And since most of the security-flaws in linux are buffer-overflows
> I would like to request that a patch based on this one is applied
> to the kernel so people can use this extension by default.

Not in the linux kernel. If you followed the last security issues
none of them involved a overrun stack buffer. In fact I can only
remember one stack buffer overflow at all in the kernel long ago.

-Andi

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