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Commit eac61655 authored by Borislav Petkov's avatar Borislav Petkov Committed by Linus Torvalds
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x86: Deprecate a.out support 



Linux supports ELF binaries for ~25 years now.  a.out coredumping has
bitrotten quite significantly and would need some fixing to get it into
shape again but considering how even the toolchains cannot create a.out
executables in its default configuration, let's deprecate a.out support
and remove it a couple of releases later, instead.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRichard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: <linux-api@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 08300f44

arch/x86/Kconfig

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@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ config X86_32 
	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION

	select CLKSRC_I8253

	select CLONE_BACKWARDS

	select HAVE_AOUT

	select HAVE_GENERIC_DMA_COHERENT

	select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL

	select OLD_SIGACTION
@@ -2843,6 +2842,7 @@ config IA32_EMULATION 
config IA32_AOUT

	tristate "IA32 a.out support"

	depends on IA32_EMULATION

	depends on BROKEN

	---help---

	  Support old a.out binaries in the 32bit emulation.

arch/x86/um/Kconfig

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@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ config 64BIT 


config X86_32

	def_bool !64BIT

	select HAVE_AOUT

	select ARCH_WANT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION

	select MODULES_USE_ELF_REL

	select CLONE_BACKWARDS