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Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig index 0952ecd60ec..838e7c34dd6 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig @@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ config X86 select RTC_LIB select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64 + select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR config INSTRUCTION_DECODER def_bool y @@ -1617,22 +1618,6 @@ config SECCOMP If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here. -config CC_STACKPROTECTOR - bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection" - ---help--- - 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 - neutralized via a kernel panic. - - 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. (and a warning is printed during bootup) - source kernel/Kconfig.hz config KEXEC |