From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"Austin S. Hemmelgarn" <ahferroin7@gmail.com>,
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>,
Tomas Janousek <tomi@nomi.cz>, Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org, doko@debian.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add -fno-PIE
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2016 16:10:48 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161104161048.GG19539@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161104155855.diyclit55eay6gxk@linutronix.de>
On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 04:58:55PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2016-11-04 15:54:27 [+0000], Al Viro wrote:
> > Christoph, would you mind rereading what I posted upthread? I *am* aware of
> > that clusterfuck, including the Balint's charming games with the reassignments,
> > etc. Directly affected by the whole mess, actually.
>
> Al, I am re-doing the patch with a runtime check for -fno-PIE and
> tagging it stable and looking after Ben's fstack protector thingy.
> This should allow you to compile maintained stable kernels but it won't
> allow you to bisect to prior versions.
> I don't see any other way around it.
And I don't see any way around severity:important against gcc-6. Unless the
policy has changed, "has a major effect on the usability of a package, without
rendering it completely unusable to everyone" still warrants that. And
kernel development (including bisects) has, until now, been consdered
a normal use of gcc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-04 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-02 17:20 [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/HOWTO: Use a more recent gcc + binutils Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-02 17:20 ` [PATCH 2/2] kbuild: add -fno-PIE Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-03 22:50 ` Ben Hutchings
2016-11-04 1:08 ` Al Viro
2016-11-04 11:37 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-11-04 14:24 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-04 14:39 ` Markus Trippelsdorf
2016-11-04 14:55 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-11-04 14:47 ` Austin S. Hemmelgarn
2016-11-04 15:18 ` Al Viro
2016-11-04 15:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2016-11-04 15:54 ` Al Viro
2016-11-04 15:58 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-04 16:10 ` Al Viro [this message]
2016-11-04 16:17 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2016-11-04 16:25 ` Adam Borowski
2016-11-02 18:52 ` [PATCH 1/2] Documentation/HOWTO: Use a more recent gcc + binutils Sven Joachim
2016-11-02 19:55 ` Borislav Petkov
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