The -static overrides the -pie and binaries aren't position independent anymore. Use -static-pie instead which would produce a static and position independent binary. This has been caught by clang's warnings: clang: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-pie' [-Wunused-command-line-argument] Tested with both gcc and clang after this change. Fixes: 4d1cd3b2c5c1 ("tools/testing/selftests/exec: fix link error") Signed-off-by: Muhammad Usama Anjum <usama.anjum@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes since v1: - Remove unneeded comment --- tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile index fb4472ddffd81..3c79ec9bf780f 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/exec/Makefile @@ -29,8 +29,8 @@ $(OUTPUT)/execveat.denatured: $(OUTPUT)/execveat cp $< $@ chmod -x $@ $(OUTPUT)/load_address_4096: load_address.c - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -pie -static $< -o $@ + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000 -static-pie $< -o $@ $(OUTPUT)/load_address_2097152: load_address.c - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x200000 -pie -static $< -o $@ + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x200000 -static-pie $< -o $@ $(OUTPUT)/load_address_16777216: load_address.c - $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000000 -pie -static $< -o $@ + $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -Wl,-z,max-page-size=0x1000000 -static-pie $< -o $@ -- 2.39.2