On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 01:53 +0100, David Nielsen wrote: > Hi List > > A while back when FC5 was in it's infancy, Arjen mentioned a very > interesting FORTIFY_SOURCE support patch for the kernel, does anyone > know if this is any closer to inclusion, I've done some casual LKML > searching and I can't even find any debate on this feature. what a coincidence... this got asked yesterday as well ;) The answer was "no because after manual review it's not currently bringing additional security; not until gcc can grok that kmalloc is like malloc. For a slightly longer answer see yesterdays archives -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
