[LinuxBIOS] Possible stack protect solutions
ron minnich
rminnich at gmail.com
Thu Dec 20 18:27:38 CET 2007
On Dec 19, 2007 9:53 AM, Jordan Crouse <jordan.crouse at amd.com> wrote:
> So I offer these two possible solutions. One is a patch to buildrom that
> changes how we pass in the -fno-stack-protect flag (thanks to Marc for
> the patch). The other is a patch to LinuxBIOS itself to fix the actual
> problem and pass $(CPU_OPT) where appropriate in the mainboard Config.lb
> files.
>
Use this patch. fix it at the source. Fix ALL boards. This would help
lots of people.
But CPU_OPT is a non-obvious name for something that fixes
-fno-stack-protector. That's the only problem I can see.
We can then fix buildtarget to set CPU_OPT as needed, and fix it from
that side too.
ron
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