Re: more build problems with "Makefile: move stackprotector availability out of Kconfig"

From: Kees Cook
Date: Tue Oct 17 2017 - 14:53:18 EST


On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 11:52 AM, Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 08:47:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
>> To clarify: with my gcc-4.9/gcc-5 build, -mstack-protector-guard=tls
>> has no effect,
>> the output is the same as with -mstack-protector-guard=global using the Ubuntu
>> compilers of the same version.
>
> Jumping in here... on IRC Arnd suggested reverting 123c48cf899d
> ("Makefile: introduce CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_AUTO") from -next. What
> do you think Kees?

Until we sort this out, yes, agreed. Andrew, can you pull the patches?

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Pixel Security