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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: "Alexander Viro" <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	"Kees Cook" <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"Valdis Klētnieks" <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>,
	"Greg Ungerer" <gerg@linux-m68k.org>,
	"Linux FS-devel Mailing List" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix execfd build regression
Date: Thu, 28 May 2020 00:29:51 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a1YHS0kQODqKEqZ5DJCSodyOWE=G5i0pjoPq_V0pQDauA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877dwx3u9y.fsf@x220.int.ebiederm.org>

On Thu, May 28, 2020 at 12:12 AM Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@xmission.com> wrote:
>
> Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
>
> > The change to bprm->have_execfd was incomplete, leading
> > to a build failure:
> >
> > fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c: In function 'create_elf_fdpic_tables':
> > fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c:591:27: error: 'BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD' undeclared
> >
> > Change the last user of BINPRM_FLAGS_EXECFD in a corresponding
> > way.
> >
> > Reported-by: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
> > Fixes: b8a61c9e7b4a ("exec: Generic execfd support")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> > ---
> > I have no idea whether this is right, I only looked briefly at
> > the commit that introduced the problem.
>
> It is correct and my fault.
>
> Is there an easy to build-test configuration that includes
> binfmt_elf_fdpic?
>
> I have this sense that it might be smart to unify binfmt_elf
> and binftm_elf_fdpic to the extent possible, and that will take build
> tests.

It should be included in an ARM allmodconfig. Nicolas Pitr did the
work to support ELF_FDPIC on ARM with MMU a while ago, but
I'm not sure what it would take to make this architecture independent
or support build-testing on x86.

       Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-27 22:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-27 13:49 [PATCH] binfmt_elf_fdpic: fix execfd build regression Arnd Bergmann
2020-05-27 22:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2020-05-27 22:29   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2020-05-27 22:35   ` Valdis Klētnieks

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