[PATCH (sh-2.6) 1/2] sh: add stack smashing protection support

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday, December 09, 2010 10:56:26 Carmelo AMOROSO wrote:
> I agree with you that the Kconfig and Makefile changes are not arch
> specific, so these changes can be moved to a common code (even if I
> don't know if other archs do support SSP).
> In the current kernel, only x86 and ARM added this support, so I'm
> wondering if, moving SSP to the common Makefile, it needs to depend on
> x86, ARM, SH being configured ?

i'm not sure it does.  ssp is designed to be arch independent, so really you 
only need a new enough gcc version.  which means i dont think it needs to 
depend on any arch code and you can simply add to the Makefile a compiler 
check.

> Regarding the __stack_chk_guard symbol defined in process[_32].c, I
> don't know if all archs need to define this global variable to implement
> SSP. For sure x86 does not need it. It depends on how the gcc implements
> this feature. This was mainly the reason for which we defined it
> specifically in an arch specific code.

the common gcc code too outputs __stack_chk_guard references.  none of that is 
in arch-specific places.
-mike
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