From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758052AbYDRFte (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:49:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752941AbYDRFtX (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:49:23 -0400 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:48963 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753138AbYDRFtW (ORCPT ); Fri, 18 Apr 2008 01:49:22 -0400 Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:49:08 -0700 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Andrew Morton Cc: Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Pekka Enberg , linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, James Morris , Stephen Smalley Subject: Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good Message-ID: <20080417224908.67cec814@laptopd505.fenrus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080417160331.b4729f0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080417160331.b4729f0c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: Intel X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.2.0 (GTK+ 2.12.5; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:31 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote: > > I repulled all the trees an hour or two ago, installed everything on > an 8-way x86_64 box and: > > > stack-protector: > > Testing -fstack-protector-all feature > No -fstack-protector-stack-frame! > -fstack-protector-all test failed do you have a stack-protector capable GCC? I guess not. This is a catch-22. You do not have stack-protector. Should we make that a silent failure? or do you want to know that you don't have a security feature you thought you had.... complaining seems to be the right thing to do imo. -- If you want to reach me at my work email, use arjan@linux.intel.com For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org