Re: [GIT PULL] gcc-plugin stackleak for v4.20-rc1

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Nov 01 2018 - 14:50:06 EST


On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 12:14 PM Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Please pull this new GCC plugin, stackleak, for v4.20-rc1. This plugin
> was ported from grsecurity by Alexander Popov. It provides efficient
> stack content poisoning at syscall exit. This creates a defense against
> at least two classes of flaws:

I'm still not a huge fan, but I didn't hate it enough not to pull it. So pulled,

Linus