Re: [PATCHSET] saner elf compat

Linus Torvalds
2020-12-03T22:10:03Z

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 1:46 PM Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> The answer (for mainline) is that mips compat does *NOT* want
> COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF. Not a problem with that series, though, so I'd
> retested it (seems to work, both for x86_64 and mips64, execs and
> coredumps for all ABIs alike), with centralization of Kconfig logics
> thrown in.

Well, the diffstat looks nice:

> 26 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-)

and the patches didn't trigger anything for me, but how much did this
get tested? Do you actually have both kinds of 32-bit elf mips
binaries around and a machine to test on?

Linux-mips was cc'd, but I'm adding Thomas B to the cc here explicitly
just so that he has a heads-up on this thing and can go and look at
the mailing list in case it goes to a separate mailbox for him..

Linus