diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 0952ecd..838e7c3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@
 	select RTC_LIB
 	select HAVE_DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW
 	select HAVE_IRQ_EXIT_ON_IRQ_STACK if X86_64
+	select HAVE_CC_STACKPROTECTOR
 
 config INSTRUCTION_DECODER
 	def_bool y
@@ -1617,22 +1618,6 @@
 
 	  If unsure, say Y. Only embedded should say N here.
 
-config CC_STACKPROTECTOR
-	bool "Enable -fstack-protector buffer overflow detection"
-	---help---
-	  This option turns on the -fstack-protector GCC feature. This
-	  feature puts, at the beginning of functions, a canary value on
-	  the stack just before the return address, and validates
-	  the value just before actually returning.  Stack based buffer
-	  overflows (that need to overwrite this return address) now also
-	  overwrite the canary, which gets detected and the attack is then
-	  neutralized via a kernel panic.
-
-	  This feature requires gcc version 4.2 or above, or a distribution
-	  gcc with the feature backported. Older versions are automatically
-	  detected and for those versions, this configuration option is
-	  ignored. (and a warning is printed during bootup)
-
 source kernel/Kconfig.hz
 
 config KEXEC