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authorBorislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>2019-03-05 15:47:51 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-05 10:39:38 -0800
commiteac616557050737a8d6ef6fe0322d0980ff0ffde (patch)
tree1c6059c5eaf9102f74f07cf935133a9eb685e72d
parenta.out: remove core dumping support (diff)
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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: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Acked-by: Richard 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: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/Kconfig2
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/um/Kconfig1
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index 68261430fe6e..ade12ec4224b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -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.
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
index f518b4744ff8..494eeb51e4e1 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
@@ -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