Re: [Patch 0/8] Port of -fstack-protector to the kernel

From: Arjan van de Ven
Date: Fri Mar 17 2006 - 11:50:32 EST


Michal Piotrowski wrote:
Hi,

On 17/03/06, Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This patch series adds support for the gcc 4.1 -fstack-protector feature to
the kernel. Unfortunately this needs a gcc patch before it can work, so at
this point these patches are just for comment, not for merging.


It's x86_64 specific?

for now it is yes; x86-64 is the "easiest" one because there already is a
per-processor datastructure in line with what gcc expect (eg similar to the
userland per thread structure). For x86... that's not there in the kernel.

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