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

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Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 16:58:55 +0100
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        "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 2016-11-04 15:54:27 [+0000], Al Viro wrote:
> 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.

Al, I am re-doing the patch with a runtime check for -fno-PIE and
tagging it stable and looking after Ben's fstack protector thingy.
This should allow you to compile maintained stable kernels but it won't
allow you to bisect to prior versions.
I don't see any other way around it.

Sebastian