Linus Torvalds writes: (Summary) On Sat, Feb 10, 2018 at 11:23 AM, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> wrote:
Guys, this is not that important.
Guys, this is not that important.
Don't make some stupid script for stackprotector. It matters NOT ONE WHIT whether that then means that stackprotector will be off by default later.
stackprotector will be off by default later.
Seriously. This is classic "Kees thinks that _his_ code is so important that everybody should get the value _he_ cares about". The fact that _you_ care about this doesn't mean that everybody else should too.
that everybody else should too.
The whole point was to simplify Kconfig, not to make it even worse.
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$KBUILD_CPPFLAGS"Guys, this is not that important.
Guys, this is not that important.
Don't make some stupid script for stackprotector. It matters NOT ONE WHIT whether that then means that stackprotector will be off by default later.
stackprotector will be off by default later.
Seriously. This is classic "Kees thinks that _his_ code is so important that everybody should get the value _he_ cares about". The fact that _you_ care about this doesn't mean that everybody else should too.
that everybody else should too.
The whole point was to simplify Kconfig, not to make it even worse.