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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