This is just a heads up for anyone using glibc or uclibc builds: due to the application of commit b933f9c, you will need to rebuild your entire toolchain. So do a make dirclean.
This commit removes gcc's libssp, formerly used to provide userspace stack smashing protection, in favour of the native libc variants in glibc and uclibc, so the toolchain and all packages require a complete rebuild.
For x86_64 glibc builds, you will now have the options for kernel level stack smashing protection enabled as well, which will default to regular. Prior to this, kernel level stack smashing protection was not available for x86_64 glibc builds.
With uclibc, previously even though the kernel stack smashing options were available in menuconfig, they were disabled by the kernel build system since the default for uclibc was to use gcc libssp, which causes gcc to emit a stack canary that is not compatible with the kernel and thus the kernel build system finds an incompatible stack protection mechanism and disables the stack protection options.