Re: [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup

>     * drop support for stack-protector (does it really help? do people
>       use it?)

AFAIK we only ever had a single classical stack buffer overflow in the kernel.
It certainly doesn't seem to be a common security problem it is solving.

-Andi
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References:
- [patch 00/14] Per cpu code simplification
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup
  - From: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
- Re: [patch 05/14] percpu: Use a Kconfig variable to configure arch specific percpu setup
  - From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <[email protected]>

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