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From: Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Opinions on -fstack-protector
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:14:17 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090823201417.071af9fb@coercion> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A9042CE.3000207@f_philipp.fastmail.net>

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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:11:10 +0200
Florian Philipp <lists@f_philipp.fastmail.net> wrote:

> I'm wondering what you think about CFLAGS="-fstack-protector"? Do you
> use it on security critical systems? Do you compile your kernel with it
> (2.6.30+)? Is the performance decrease noticeable?

I might be missing a point, but if you want really secure kernel, why'd
you use 2.6.30+ instead of hardened-sources something like PaX and
grsecurity?

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-08-23 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-22 19:11 [gentoo-user] Opinions on -fstack-protector Florian Philipp
2009-08-23 14:14 ` Mike Kazantsev [this message]
2009-08-23 18:04   ` Florian Philipp

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