Re: 2.6.25-mm1: not looking good

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Apr 18 2008 - 02:11:38 EST


On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:49:08 -0700 Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:03:31 -0700
> Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

A #warning sounds more appropriate.
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