linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add -fno-PIE

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Message-ID: <20161104152223.GA1052@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 08:22:23 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        "Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@...il.com>,
        Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@....de>,
        Tomas Janousek <tomi@...i.cz>, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Adam Borowski <kilobyte@...band.pl>,
        Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org,
        doko@...ian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add -fno-PIE

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:18:11PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 03:24:24PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> 
> > Eventually Fedora and SUSE will migrate to PIE by default and by then we
> > should cover all major distros so even Al should be affected unless he
> > decides not to update or is using something else.
> 
> That "something else" happens to be mostly Debian, actually.

Debian is moving over to PIE already.  Looks at this for example:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2016/10/msg00242.html