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

[Dave Jones]

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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