Re: -fno-PIE, take #3

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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On Fri, 2016-11-04 at 19:39 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Debian gcc's is nowdays compiled with --enable-default-pie which means it does
> -fPIE by default. This breaks atleast x86-64 compiles.
> This is the third attempt to fix it, this time by using runtime detection of
> the -fno-PIE compiler switch (it was introduced in gcc 3.4, min required gcc is
> currently 3.2) so it can be backported to the stable kernels.
> As noted by Al this won't fix `git bisect' of stable kernels prio this commit.
> However using always a wrapper around gcc which adds -fno-PIE is not sollution
> I want to rely in future.

I applied the previous version of "kbuild: add -fno-PIE" plus
"scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE" to the Debian kernel
package of v4.9-rc3 and built with gcc-6, and the results of auto-
building so far are (from
<https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=linux&suite=experimental>):

Debian    Description                  Result
name
----------------------------------------------
amd64     x86_64                       OK
arm64     ARMv8                        OK
armel     ARMv5                        pending
armhf     ARMv7                        pending
i386      i686                         OK
mips      MIPS{32,64}r2 big-endian     OK
mipsel    MIPS{32,64}r2 little-endian  pending
mips64el  MIPS64r2, little-endian      pending
ppc64el   POWER8, little-endian        OK
s390x     s390x                        OK

PIE has not been enabled by default on other Debian architectures.  The
build failures on hppa and sparc64 are unrelated.

We do enable CONFIG_KEXEC_FILE on amd64 so I don't know how why that
build succeeded without "x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE".

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
For every complex problem
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

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