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 7F889C32771 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2022 02:37:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229477AbiI0Cht (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:37:49 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40844 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229538AbiI0Chs (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Sep 2022 22:37:48 -0400 Received: from mail-pl1-x62c.google.com (mail-pl1-x62c.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4864:20::62c]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E260CA02EF for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-pl1-x62c.google.com with SMTP id v1so7865794plo.9 for ; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:37:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=chromium.org; s=google; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:subject:cc:to:from:from:to:cc:subject:date; bh=/XRd/aWBk5jCAmuoAQuPsY7AqhCiNuH6AfOLsLMKTdU=; b=AeafmdoMSMHxUt9znzwqN62NCILxYpqTgFHT2ka5g6cIoZ+H7/6Tj+KVUxKXjken3f wmippMkRevTMLncHHCjWoC1ug1ybN8fG9NoI1uoYUj1ihA355ms3znvMh8X4zEbzBJHR 0GY22DFARUMRFn+tuXVBrSvRv+ftAgeDTP8ts= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=content-transfer-encoding:mime-version:references:in-reply-to :message-id:date:subject:cc:to:from:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc :subject:date; bh=/XRd/aWBk5jCAmuoAQuPsY7AqhCiNuH6AfOLsLMKTdU=; b=TUjUbfLMf/uW8ExHESL5w/DJTFQOz2MAm5+H0GY5A/pLOPN2/7XvgDlnPz8EllBLbz /b3XiwMFrjd6lgPVC8Lru2k5Jd+EyXpXiU+ex1HfPVJrHQFIScpaWHXwB6Ya74hw9LbZ kkYVXuafnIvdPlWGEtrYHSAWnQuUPVEGh0PquITmtyeKms/Dq6RhggS5gwPZPfxnejVg 2b2WJZldVPQx2DbIMQou1ImcCngloOVUlJnY5nOAAydjIVIF9XdgdeTnPuQ884TI/PJl MpbERo/PL7yec/PIukFwlnyhzYpBM3dsTjXBDRrZxPjAAT1tydpYd9RbmtP5+O/U2a5h uFLw== X-Gm-Message-State: ACrzQf2C+jSMrbU+PTpPs73iIRsXzNSQ7fbhltTs0ArrfCU9VUofFXpc ZnNk084QTFy3RqPiRPr14K7K3OJRzu6lCQ== X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMsMyM5yLWdhYObdorDIlWiBERwUvOOeSq4ad3HIojfD6Tofme4SaUzlw/sZvWvNi+qe9egrnE0c6Q== X-Received: by 2002:a17:90b:1d8b:b0:200:5367:5ecd with SMTP id pf11-20020a17090b1d8b00b0020053675ecdmr1971892pjb.165.1664246265768; Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:37:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.outflux.net (smtp.outflux.net. [198.145.64.163]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id s1-20020a170902b18100b00176e2fa216csm176564plr.52.2022.09.26.19.37.44 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:37:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Kees Cook To: ebiederm@xmission.com Cc: Kees Cook , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2022 19:36:33 -0700 Message-Id: <166424619048.1957636.14312901276184216710.b4-ty@chromium.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 In-Reply-To: <871qrx3hq3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> References: <871qrx3hq3.fsf@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 26 Sep 2022 17:15:32 -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > In commit 19e8b701e258 ("a.out: Stop building a.out/osf1 support on > alpha and m68k") the last users of a.out were disabled. > > As nothing has turned up to cause this change to be reverted, let's > remove the code implementing a.out support as well. > > There may be userspace users of the uapi bits left so the uapi > headers have been left untouched. > > [...] Let's do it! It can always be reverted. :) My favorite kind of patch: > 22 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 505 deletions(-) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Applied to for-next/execve, thanks! [1/1] a.out: Remove the a.out implementation https://git.kernel.org/kees/c/795d91fe0e13 -- Kees Cook