This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE to the 4.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: scripts-has-stack-protector-add-fno-pie.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 82031ea29e454b574bc6f49a33683a693ca5d907 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:39:39 +0100 Subject: scripts/has-stack-protector: add -fno-PIE From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 82031ea29e454b574bc6f49a33683a693ca5d907 upstream. Adding -no-PIE to the fstack protector check. -no-PIE was introduced before -fstack-protector so there is no need for a runtime check. Without it the build stops: |Cannot use CONFIG_CC_STACKPROTECTOR_STRONG: -fstack-protector-strong available but compiler is broken due to -mcmodel=kernel + -fPIE if -fPIE is enabled by default. Tagging it stable so it is possible to compile recent stable kernels as well. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh +++ b/scripts/gcc-x86_64-has-stack-protector.sh @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ #!/bin/sh -echo "int foo(void) { char X[200]; return 3; }" | $* -S -x c -c -O0 -mcmodel=kernel -fstack-protector - -o - 2> /dev/null | grep -q "%gs" +echo "int foo(void) { char X[200]; return 3; }" | $* -S -x c -c -O0 -mcmodel=kernel -fno-PIE -fstack-protector - -o - 2> /dev/null | grep -q "%gs" if [ "$?" -eq "0" ] ; then echo y else Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/x86-kexec-add-fno-pie.patch queue-4.8/scripts-has-stack-protector-add-fno-pie.patch queue-4.8/kbuild-add-fno-pie.patch queue-4.8/x86-cpu-deal-with-broken-firmware-vmware-xen.patch queue-4.8/kbuild-steal-gcc-s-pie-from-the-very-beginning.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html