Re: (subset) [PATCH] binfmt_flat: Remove shared library support

Kees Cook
2022-04-21T00:06:48Z

On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 09:58:03 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> In a recent discussion[1] it was reported that the binfmt_flat library
> support was only ever used on m68k and even on m68k has not been used
> in a very long time.
>
> The structure of binfmt_flat is different from all of the other binfmt
> implementations becasue of this shared library support and it made
> life and code review more effort when I refactored the code in fs/exec.c.
>
> [...]

It seems like there is agreement that the shared library support is
unused, so let's test that assumption. :)

With typos fixed up, applied to for-next/execve, thanks!

[1/1] binfmt_flat: Remove shared library support
https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/c85b5d88951b

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Kees Cook