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* CC_STACKPROTECTOR vs CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
@ 2009-04-29 19:54 Kees Cook
  2009-04-29 20:24 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2009-04-29 19:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel; +Cc: Ingo Molnar, Thomas Gleixner, H. Peter Anvin

Hi,

What is the rationale for why CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL is forced when using
CC_STACKPROTECTOR?  I would have expected _ALL to be a separate option
(as it was in earlier versions), but it seems it is forced on by commit
113c5413cf9051cc50b88befdc42e3402bb92115.

Thanks,

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

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* Re: CC_STACKPROTECTOR vs CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL
  2009-04-29 19:54 CC_STACKPROTECTOR vs CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL Kees Cook
@ 2009-04-29 20:24 ` Ingo Molnar
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Ingo Molnar @ 2009-04-29 20:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kees Cook, Arjan van de Ven, Tejun Heo
  Cc: linux-kernel, Thomas Gleixner, H. Peter Anvin


* Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> What is the rationale for why CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL is forced when 
> using CC_STACKPROTECTOR?  I would have expected _ALL to be a 
> separate option (as it was in earlier versions), but it seems it 
> is forced on by commit 113c5413cf9051cc50b88befdc42e3402bb92115.

it used to be a separate option. I merged them into one, because we 
had too many options really, and because the vmsplice exploit would 
only have been caught by the _ALL variant. So the 'light' variant 
never really worked well IMO.

	Ingo

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