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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-02-14 10:36:03 +0100 |
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| committer | Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> | 2008-05-26 16:15:32 +0200 |
| commit | 113c5413cf9051cc50b88befdc42e3402bb92115 (patch) | |
| tree | 79b93ba5c5309c619b7fbb0341f69cee9fcf8468 /arch/x86/Kconfig | |
| parent | 960a672bd9f1ec06e8f197cf81a50fd07ea02e7f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-113c5413cf9051cc50b88befdc42e3402bb92115.tar.gz lwn-113c5413cf9051cc50b88befdc42e3402bb92115.zip | |
x86: unify stackprotector features
streamline the stackprotector features under a single option
and make the stronger feature the one accessible.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 22 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 83d8392c1334..0cd1695c24fb 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -1140,13 +1140,17 @@ config SECCOMP If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. +config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL + bool + config CC_STACKPROTECTOR bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on X86_64 + select CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL help - This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This - feature puts, at the beginning of critical functions, a canary - value on the stack just before the return address, and validates + This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This + feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on + the stack just before the return address, and validates the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then @@ -1154,16 +1158,8 @@ config CC_STACKPROTECTOR This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically - detected and for those versions, this configuration option is ignored. - -config CC_STACKPROTECTOR_ALL - bool "Use stack-protector for all functions" - depends on CC_STACKPROTECTOR - default y - help - Normally, GCC only inserts the canary value protection for - functions that use large-ish on-stack buffers. By enabling - this option, GCC will be asked to do this for ALL functions. + detected and for those versions, this configuration option is + ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup) source kernel/Kconfig.hz |