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

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Message-ID: <20161104155427.GF19539@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 15:54:27 +0000
From:   Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
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 08:22:23AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 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

Christoph, would you mind rereading what I posted upthread?  I *am* aware of
that clusterfuck, including the Balint's charming games with the reassignments,
etc.  Directly affected by the whole mess, actually.