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Bug#537617: Use cflag '-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks' in stable



Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-17
Severity: important

commit a3ca86aea507904148870946d599e07a340b39bf
  Add '-fno-delete-null-pointer-checks' to gcc CFLAGS

It was recently discovered that a default gcc optimization allows for
an unexpected class of security issues for the linux kernel:

  http://lwn.net/Articles/341773/

Upstream has disabled this optimization, and we have backported this
change for sid. We should do the same for stable.

-- 
dann frazier




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