This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

um: link vmlinux with -no-pie

to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...

The filename of the patch is: um-link-vmlinux-with-no-pie.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 883354afbc109c57f925ccc19840055193da0cc0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Thomas Meyer thomas@m3y3r.de Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2017 13:26:04 +0200 Subject: um: link vmlinux with -no-pie

From: Thomas Meyer thomas@m3y3r.de

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@m3y3r.de Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger richard@nod.at Cc: Bernie Innocenti codewiz@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org

--- arch/um/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/arch/um/Makefile +++ b/arch/um/Makefile @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ 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@m3y3r.de are

queue-3.18/um-link-vmlinux-with-no-pie.patch