control: severity -1 normal
control: reassign -1 src:linux
control: affects -1 gcc-6
Hi Linux Kernel maintainers,
as you already know, the default PIE flag breaks the kernel build, can I suggest you to apply a similar patch
to the one that Ubuntu appplied some time ago?
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-defaults/+bug/1574982/comments/39
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -612,6 +612,12 @@ endif # $(dot-config)
# Defaults to vmlinux, but the arch makefile usually adds further targets
all: vmlinux
+# force no-pie for distro compilers that enable pie by default
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pie)
+KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -no-pie)
+KBUILD_AFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pie)
+KBUILD_CPPFLAGS += $(call cc-option, -fno-pie)
+
# The arch Makefile can set ARCH_{CPP,A,C}FLAGS to override the default
# values of the respective KBUILD_* variables
ARCH_CPPFLAGS :=
thanks
Gianfranco
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