From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:49130 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753387AbcKULlh (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Nov 2016 06:41:37 -0500 Subject: Patch "x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE" has been added to the 4.8-stable tree To: bigeasy@linutronix.de, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, mmarek@suse.com Cc: , From: Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 12:41:27 +0100 Message-ID: <1479728487189106@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/kexec: 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: x86-kexec-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 know about it. >>From 90944e40ba1838de4b2a9290cf273f9d76bd3bdd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 19:39:40 +0100 Subject: x86/kexec: add -fno-PIE From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior commit 90944e40ba1838de4b2a9290cf273f9d76bd3bdd upstream. If the gcc is configured to do -fPIE by default then the build aborts later with: | Unsupported relocation type: unknown type rel type name (29) Tagging it stable so it is possible to compile recent stable kernels as well. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Signed-off-by: Michal Marek Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile +++ b/arch/x86/purgatory/Makefile @@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ KCOV_INSTRUMENT := n KBUILD_CFLAGS := -fno-strict-aliasing -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss -fno-builtin -ffreestanding -c -MD -Os -mcmodel=large KBUILD_CFLAGS += -m$(BITS) +KBUILD_CFLAGS += $(call cc-option,-fno-PIE) $(obj)/purgatory.ro: $(PURGATORY_OBJS) FORCE $(call if_changed,ld) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bigeasy@linutronix.de 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