> It makes a lot of sense on x86_64 where it means the canary is still > 56 > bits. Also, you want -fstack-check for protecting again stack > overflows > rather than stack *buffer* overflow. SSP won't really help you in that > regard. Sadly, while -fstack-check now works well in GCC 6 with little > performance cost, it's not really a complete feature (and Clang impls > it > as a no-op!). Note: talking about userspace after the entropy bit. The kernel doesn't really -fstack-check, at least in even slightly sane code...