From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "Jory A. Pratt" <anarchy@gentoo.org>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
hardened-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2009 18:02:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AA6FEB5.9030507@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AA6FB19.5020800@gentoo.org>
On 09/08/2009 05:47 PM, Jory A. Pratt wrote:
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> I have sent this to the lkml, it seems to have been pushed to the back
> burner. This is a major issue effecting users/developers that are
> working on a much more security enhanced system. This means any gentoo
> user running a hardened toolchain will have problems building a kernel
> that works as expect. This patch does nothing but pass the macro
> - -D__KERNEL__ to ensure that hardened toolchain drops back to that of a
> vanilla toolchain to prevent unexpected compile problems in the kernel.
>
This should also be sent to the Kbuild maintainer, Sam Ravnborg
<sam@ravnborg.org>.
-hpa
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2009-09-09 0:47 [PATCH] Fix cc1 options check to ensure we do not use -fPIC when compiling Jory A. Pratt
2009-09-09 1:02 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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