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Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE

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On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 01:16:00PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Debian started to build the gcc with --enable-default-pie by default

To be exact: this is since gcc-6 6.2.0-7 dated Tue, 18 Oct 2016 13:53:00 +0200
on amd64 arm64 armel armhf i386 mips mipsel mips64el ppc64el s390x.

> so the kernel build ends before it starts properly with:
> |kernel/bounds.c:1:0: error: code model kernel does not support PIC mode
> 
> Is this okay or do we want some kind of check to see if -fno-PIE is supported?
> It is mentioned in the 4.4.7 gcc manpage is it is not *that* new :)

A naive "git log -Sno-PIE" on gcc sources shows commit 3e7f6cce[1] from Feb
2004, and as gcc automatically supports no-XXX whenever XXX is added, it
appears the option is older than that.

> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
> ---
>  Makefile | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
> index bf6e44a421df..97296d66b586 100644
> --- a/Makefile
> +++ b/Makefile
> @@ -398,7 +398,7 @@ KBUILD_CPPFLAGS := -D__KERNEL__
>  KBUILD_CFLAGS   := -Wall -Wundef -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs \
>  		   -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common \
>  		   -Werror-implicit-function-declaration \
> -		   -Wno-format-security \
> +		   -Wno-format-security -fno-PIE \
>  		   -std=gnu89
>  
>  KBUILD_AFLAGS_KERNEL :=
> -- 
> 2.9.3

The patch works for me.  I haven't done any but most trivial testing,
though.


[1]. Using the https://gcc.gnu.org/git/gcc.git git gateway, commit hashes
may be different elsewhere.
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[RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-21 13:20 +0200
  Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl> - 2016-10-21 23:30 +0200
    Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-10-23 18:30 +0200
      Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-23 21:30 +0200
        Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-10-24 09:40 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-24 09:50 +0200
            Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-10-24 19:40 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-24 19:50 +0200
              Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> - 2016-10-25 09:40 +0200
                Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-10-26 20:00 +0200
          Re: [RFC PATCH] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> - 2016-10-24 12:00 +0200

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