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@@ -1374,6 +1374,18 @@ config UACCESS_WITH_MEMCPY
However, if the CPU data cache is using a write-allocate mode,
this option is unlikely to provide any performance gain.
+config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
+ bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ help
+ This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
+ feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
+ the stack just before the return address, and validates
+ the value just before actually returning. Stack based buffer
+ overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
+ overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
+ neutralized via a kernel panic.
+ This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above.
+
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