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Linux Kernel Considers Linking The Relocatable x86 Kernel As PIE In 2026


To allow for additional security hardening of the Linux kernel, a patch series has been updated more than one year later to link the relocatable x86_64 kernel as Position Independent Executable (PIE) code.

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