This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
um: link vmlinux with -no-pie
to the 4.4-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:
um-link-vmlinux-with-no-pie.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 883354afbc109c57f925ccc19840055193da0cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:26:04 +0200
Subject: um: link vmlinux with -no-pie
From: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
commit 883354afbc109c57f925ccc19840055193da0cc0 upstream.
Debian's gcc defaults to pie. The global Makefile already defines the -fno-pie option.
Link UML dynamic kernel image also with -no-pie to fix the build.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Meyer <thomas@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@xxxxxx>
Cc: Bernie Innocenti <codewiz@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/um/Makefile | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/um/Makefile
+++ b/arch/um/Makefile
@@ -117,7 +117,7 @@ archheaders:
archprepare: include/generated/user_constants.h
LINK-$(CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_STATIC) += -static
-LINK-$(CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_DYN) += -Wl,-rpath,/lib
+LINK-$(CONFIG_LD_SCRIPT_DYN) += -Wl,-rpath,/lib $(call cc-option, -no-pie)
CFLAGS_NO_HARDENING := $(call cc-option, -fno-PIC,) $(call cc-option, -fno-pic,) \
$(call cc-option, -fno-stack-protector,) \
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from thomas@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/um-link-vmlinux-with-no-pie.patch