From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11BE2C433EF for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 10:17:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S232517AbiCQKSu (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:18:50 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:39340 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S232513AbiCQKSp (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:18:45 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de (mail.skyhub.de [IPv6:2a01:4f8:190:11c2::b:1457]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E1971DDFD9 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 03:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from zn.tnic (p200300ea971561b0329c23fffea6a903.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [IPv6:2003:ea:9715:61b0:329c:23ff:fea6:a903]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.skyhub.de (SuperMail on ZX Spectrum 128k) with ESMTPSA id 622B91EC05B0; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:17:24 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=alien8.de; s=dkim; t=1647512244; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references; bh=/6h+4CTlKfIpc7jRUmZz8FIxIfmUZfkd19wtpU9eCO0=; b=YjWnbOD7Qy30aVbNmIYvKRJ1r/qzsgPgWb0bpBr3Yw+50my7Q2ohYNGDuCX8IkiVi/w20/ 4zACbBHtuDEaEO/wSUih0SsDvtHr3PQfYNnuaan+EicisI6w5rdRiy44voWuoxFRIHUE8R Z5oZYusOi3EFjb4mtozJHUn9Ans+DoI= Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 11:17:20 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: James Jones Cc: Kees Cook , Arnd Bergmann , the arch/x86 maintainers , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support Message-ID: References: <4c449fab-8135-5057-7d2c-7b948ce130cc@theinnocuous.com> <0b31b1d3-852d-6cab-82ae-5eecaec05679@theinnocuous.com> <202203151150.1CDB1D8DA@keescook> <202203161523.857B469@keescook> <59fb3d14-423a-d39b-04cb-1e60ee67d3f1@theinnocuous.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <59fb3d14-423a-d39b-04cb-1e60ee67d3f1@theinnocuous.com> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 02:04:46AM +0000, James Jones wrote: > Yes, works perfectly, thank you. I like the idea of using this much > better than getting emailed every time someone wants to delete the a.out > code again. Consider my use case withdrawn. I've already pushed an > update to my jaguar-sdk project to use this tool instead. Ok, pls do test this solution extensively and let us know if there are other problems. I'll schedule a.out removal then for the next kernel so you have a month or two time to experiment. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette