CrOS uses ssp-strong, not ssp-all
CrOS uses ssp-strong, not ssp-all
Posted Feb 7, 2017 3:55 UTC (Tue) by vapier (guest, #15768)Parent article: The grsecurity "RAP" patch set
the text says "CrOS uses ssp-all", but then links to a page that explicitly says CrOS does not -- it uses ssp-strong. seems like an unnecessarily obvious typo.
Posted Feb 7, 2017 11:14 UTC (Tue)
by FLHerne (guest, #105373)
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"SSP-All was chosen as a comparison since it was used for a long time by Chrome OS."
CrOS uses ssp-strong, not ssp-all
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"fstack-protector-all was defined to add the canary to all functions. This results in substantial use of stack space for saving the canary on deep stack users, and measurable (though surprisingly still relatively low) performance hit due to all the saving/checking. For a long time, Chrome OS used this, since we’re paranoid."