On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:16:06AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:

On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 11:08:13AM -0500, Alec Ari wrote:

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I'm having this problem too, build is failing:

Invalid absolute R_X86_64_32S relocation: _etext

I stayed on the 4.14 branch to help prevent these kind of breakages, so much for that idea. Gentoo GCC 8.3.0.

It seems to be a problem with the Gold linker. Using ld.bfd appears to work. I haven't narrowed down the problem, unfortunately.

Greg, given that this change was only for special situations (Clang CFI), can you revert this for the stable trees?

Turns out that Android required it to be reverted too, so no one needs this :(

I'll go revert this, thanks.

greg k-h