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Biederman" , Niklas.Cassel@wdc.com, Al Viro , Paul Walmsley , Albert Ou , Mike Frysinger , "# 3.4.x" , Linux FS-devel Mailing List , Linux-MM , linux-riscv , linux-arch , Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-m68k , Greg Ungerer , Linux ARM , Linux-sh list , Yoshinori Sato References: <87levzzts4.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> <20220420165935.GA12207@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <202204201044.ACFEB0C@keescook> <20220420202321.GD7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> From: Damien Le Moal Organization: Western Digital Research In-Reply-To: <20220420202321.GD7074@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On 4/21/22 05:23, Rich Felker wrote: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 10:04:32PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 7:47 PM Kees Cook wrote: >>> >>> Yeah, I was trying to understand why systems were using binfmt_flat and >>> not binfmt_elf, given the mention of elf2flat -- is there really such a >>> large kernel memory footprint savings to be had from removing >>> binfmt_elf? >> >> I think the main reason for using flat binaries is nommu support on >> m68k, xtensa and risc-v. The regular binfmt_elf support requires >> an MMU, and the elf-fdpic variant is only available for arm and sh >> at this point (the other nommu architectures got removed over time). > > I believe I made the elf-fdpic loader so that it's capable of loading > normal non-fdpic elf files on nommu (1bde925d23), unless somebody > broke that. I also seem to recall that capability being added to the > main elf loader later. Last time I checked, building shared libraries usable with nommu riscv required gcc/ld options that were not supported for riscv (PIE related stuff). So removing the kernel support for shared flat libs is fine with me. -- Damien Le Moal Western Digital Research