[PATCH] LoongArch: Drop -ffreestanding from CFLAGS

From: WANG Xuerui
Date: Fri Aug 04 2023 - 08:56:23 EST


From: WANG Xuerui <git@xxxxxxxxxx>

As explained by Nick in the original issue: the kernel usually does a
good job of providing library helpers that have similar semantics as
their ordinary userspace libc equivalents, but -ffreestanding disables
such libcall optimization and other related features in the compiler,
which can lead to unexpected things such as CONFIG_FORTIFY_SOURCE not
working (!).

As it turns out to be the case, removing the flag does not impact the
LoongArch kernel's normal operation at all; so just remove it to
restore expected libcall semantics globally on this architecture.

Closes: https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1897
Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor <nathan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Suggested-by: Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/loongarch/Makefile | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/loongarch/Makefile b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
index b1e5db51b61c..db0d7210272d 100644
--- a/arch/loongarch/Makefile
+++ b/arch/loongarch/Makefile
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ KBUILD_CFLAGS_KERNEL += -fPIE
LDFLAGS_vmlinux += -static -pie --no-dynamic-linker -z notext
endif

-cflags-y += -ffreestanding
cflags-y += $(call cc-option, -mno-check-zero-division)

load-y = 0x9000000000200000
--
2.40.0