linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wgpToUf0XORoH_t7Wrqv3=VcqCCDV2qnCbqjtCsrd3Cyg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:35:22 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:     Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Måns Rullgård <mans@...sr.com>,
        "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
        John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>,
        Michael Cree <mcree@...on.net.nz>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        linux-m68k <linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        X86 ML <x86@...nel.org>, Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support

On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 3:29 PM Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
>
> Kees can you pick this one up in for-next/execve as well?
>
> It still applies cleanly and the actual patch seems to have gotten lost
> in the conversation about what more we could do.

Side note: there are similar other turds if a.out goes away, ie on
alpha it's OSF4_COMPAT, and it enables support for a couple of legacy
OSF/1 system calls.

I think that was also discussed in the (old) a.out deprecation thread
back in 2019..

               Linus