Re: [stable] patchkbuild-allow-fstack-protector-to-take-effect.patch added to2.6.24-stable tree

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Feb 22 2008 - 18:34:41 EST


On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:18:08PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:06:04PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 03:00:58PM -0800, gregkh@xxxxxxx wrote:
> > >
> > > This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled
> > >
> > > Subject: kbuild: allow -fstack-protector to take effect
> > >
> > > to the 2.6.24-stable tree. Its filename is
> > >
> > > kbuild-allow-fstack-protector-to-take-effect.patch
> > >
> > > A git repo of this tree can be found at
> > > http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
> >
> > Is this wise given this thread.. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/22/101 ?
> >
> > At least until the problem is understood, not enabling this seems like
> > a better option for -stable
>
> I thought that thread was for the much larger patches, not just this
> Makefile change.

At the least we'll likely want to also pick up the other stack protector fixes
that went into .25rc if we turn it on in .24

Dave

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