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From: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>
To: Ammar Faizi <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>, Nugra <[email protected]>,
	"GNU/Weeb Mailing List" <[email protected]>,
	Tea Inside Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	io-uring Mailing List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PATCH liburing v1] src/Makefile: Don't use stack protector for all builds by default
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2022 05:33:56 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOG64qOgZ9bvdCV3-N=uk4ZCCj46W1VJU_+kN9ZsV8uTMnJ8-A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Fri, Feb 25, 2022 at 5:25 AM Ammar Faizi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Stack protector adds extra mov, extra stack allocation and extra branch
> to save and validate the stack canary. While this feature could be
> useful to detect stack corruption in some scenarios, it is not really
> needed for liburing which is simple enough to review.
>
> Good code shouldn't corrupt the stack. We don't need this extra
> checking at the moment. Just for comparison, let's take a hot function
> __io_uring_get_cqe.

Yes, I don't see any harm in removing the stack protector here.

Reviewed-by: Alviro Iskandar Setiawan <[email protected]>

-- Viro

  reply	other threads:[~2022-02-24 22:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-02-24 22:24 [PATCH liburing v1] src/Makefile: Don't use stack protector for all builds by default Ammar Faizi
2022-02-24 22:33 ` Alviro Iskandar Setiawan [this message]
2022-02-25 20:29 ` Jens Axboe

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