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Linus Torvalds 08300f4402 a.out: remove core dumping support 
We're (finally) phasing out a.out support for good.  As Borislav Petkov
points out, we've supported ELF binaries for about 25 years by now, and
coredumping in particular has bitrotted over the years.

None of the tool chains even support generating a.out binaries any more,
and the plan is to deprecate a.out support entirely for the kernel.  But
I want to start with just removing the core dumping code, because I can
still imagine that somebody actually might want to support a.out as a
simpler biinary format.

Particularly if you generate some random binaries on the fly, ELF is a
much more complicated format (admittedly ELF also does have a lot of
toolchain support, mitigating that complexity a lot and you really
should have moved over in the last 25 years).

So it's at least somewhat possible that somebody out there has some
workflow that still involves generating and running a.out executables.

In contrast, it's very unlikely that anybody depends on debugging any
legacy a.out core files.  But regardless, I want this phase-out to be
done in two steps, so that we can resurrect a.out support (if needed)
without having to resurrect the core file dumping that is almost
certainly not needed.

Jann Horn pointed to the <asm/a.out-core.h> file that my first trivial
cut at this had missed.

And Alan Cox points out that the a.out binary loader _could_ be done in
user space if somebody wants to, but we might keep just the loader in
the kernel if somebody really wants it, since the loader isn't that big
and has no really odd special cases like the core dumping does.

Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2019-03-05 10:00:35 -08:00
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9p Merge branch 'work.afs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-11-01 19:58:52 -07:00
adfs adfs: use timespec64 for time conversion 2018-08-22 10:52:51 -07:00
affs
afs afs: Fix manually set volume location server list 2019-02-25 11:59:07 -08:00
autofs autofs: fix error return in autofs_fill_super() 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
befs fix a series of Documentation/ broken file name references 2018-06-15 18:10:01 -03:00
bfs bfs: extra sanity checking and static inode bitmap 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
btrfs for-5.0-rc4-tag 2019-02-03 08:48:33 -08:00
cachefiles fscache, cachefiles: remove redundant variable 'cache' 2018-11-30 16:00:58 +00:00
ceph ceph: avoid repeatedly adding inode to mdsc->snap_flush_list 2019-02-18 18:08:29 +01:00
cifs cifs: update internal module version number 2019-01-31 07:05:06 -06:00
coda
configfs configfs: fix registered group removal 2018-07-17 06:14:07 -07:00
cramfs Make the Cramfs code more robust against filesystem corruptions, 2018-10-30 12:46:25 -07:00
crypto crypto: clarify name of WEAK_KEY request flag 2019-01-25 18:41:52 +08:00
debugfs debugfs: debugfs_lookup() should return NULL if not found 2019-01-30 12:39:49 +01:00
devpts devpts: Convert to new IDA API 2018-08-21 23:54:17 -04:00
dlm socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes 2019-02-03 11:17:31 -08:00
ecryptfs crypto: clarify name of WEAK_KEY request flag 2019-01-25 18:41:52 +08:00
efivarfs efivars: Call guid_parse() against guid_t type of variable 2018-07-22 14:13:44 +02:00
efs
exofs exofs_mount(): fix leaks on failure exits 2018-12-17 18:36:33 -05:00
exportfs exportfs: do not read dentry after free 2018-11-23 09:08:17 -05:00
ext2 \n 2018-12-27 17:00:35 -08:00
ext4 Revert "ext4: use ext4_write_inode() when fsyncing w/o a journal" 2019-01-31 23:41:11 -05:00
f2fs f2fs-for-4.21-rc1 2018-12-31 09:41:37 -08:00
fat Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
freevxfs
fscache fscache: fix race between enablement and dropping of object 2018-11-30 15:57:31 +00:00
fuse fuse: decrement NR_WRITEBACK_TEMP on the right page 2019-01-16 10:27:59 +01:00
gfs2 Revert "gfs2: read journal in large chunks to locate the head" 2019-02-14 09:52:51 -08:00
hfs hfs: do not free node before using 2018-11-30 14:56:14 -08:00
hfsplus hfsplus: return file attributes on statx 2019-01-04 13:13:47 -08:00
hostfs vfs: discard ATTR_ATTR_FLAG 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
hpfs hpfs: remove unnecessary checks on the value of r when assigning error code 2018-08-25 12:42:33 -07:00
hugetlbfs hugetlbfs: fix races and page leaks during migration 2019-03-01 09:02:33 -08:00
isofs Update email address 2018-09-29 22:47:48 -04:00
jbd2 jbd2: clean up indentation issue, replace spaces with tab 2018-12-04 00:20:10 -05:00
jffs2 jffs2: Fix use of uninitialized delayed_work, lockdep breakage 2018-12-02 09:20:34 +01:00
jfs jfs: remove redundant dquot_initialize() in jfs_evict_inode() 2018-09-20 09:28:49 -05:00
kernfs fix cgroup_do_mount() handling of failure exits 2019-01-17 11:52:49 -05:00
lockd NFS client updates for Linux 4.21 2019-01-02 16:35:23 -08:00
minix
nfs Merge branch 'fixes-v5.1-rc6' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security 2019-02-20 09:09:33 -08:00
nfs_common
nfsd Revert "nfsd4: return default lease period" 2019-02-14 12:33:19 -05:00
nilfs2 nilfs2: Use xa_erase_irq 2018-11-05 14:57:05 -05:00
nls
notify inotify: Fix fd refcount leak in inotify_add_watch(). 2019-01-02 18:28:37 +01:00
ntfs mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
ocfs2 Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
omfs
openpromfs fs/openpromfs: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons 2018-11-18 13:35:19 -08:00
orangefs orangefs: remove two un-needed BUG_ONs... 2019-02-20 15:12:52 -05:00
overlayfs Revert "ovl: relax permission checking on underlying layers" 2018-12-04 11:31:30 +01:00
proc proc, oom: do not report alien mms when setting oom_score_adj 2019-02-21 09:01:00 -08:00
pstore pstore/ram: Avoid allocation and leak of platform data 2019-01-20 14:44:52 -08:00
qnx4
qnx6
quota quota: Lock s_umount in exclusive mode for Q_XQUOTA{ON,OFF} quotactls. 2018-12-18 18:29:15 +01:00
ramfs
reiserfs reiserfs: remove workaround code for GCC 3.x 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
romfs
squashfs Squashfs: Compute expected length from inode size rather than block length 2018-08-02 09:34:02 -07:00
sysfs sysfs: convert BUG_ON to WARN_ON 2019-01-07 08:53:32 +01:00
sysv sysv: return 'err' instead of 0 in __sysv_write_inode 2018-11-10 08:02:40 -05:00
tracefs tracefs: Annotate tracefs_ops with __ro_after_init 2018-07-31 11:32:44 -04:00
ubifs mm: migrate: drop unused argument of migrate_page_move_mapping() 2018-12-28 12:11:51 -08:00
udf \n 2018-12-27 17:00:35 -08:00
ufs fs/ufs: use ktime_get_real_seconds for sb and cg timestamps 2018-08-17 16:20:27 -07:00
xfs xfs: set buffer ops when repair probes for btree type 2019-02-03 14:03:59 -08:00
aio.c Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-04 13:24:27 -08:00
anon_inodes.c anon_inode_getfile(): switch to alloc_file_pseudo() 2018-07-12 10:04:27 -04:00
attr.c fs: Fix attr.c kernel-doc 2018-07-03 16:44:45 -04:00
bad_inode.c get rid of 'opened' argument of ->atomic_open() - part 3 2018-07-12 10:04:20 -04:00
binfmt_aout.c a.out: remove core dumping support 2019-03-05 10:00:35 -08:00
binfmt_elf_fdpic.c
binfmt_elf.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
binfmt_em86.c
binfmt_flat.c
binfmt_misc.c turn filp_clone_open() into inline wrapper for dentry_open() 2018-07-10 23:29:03 -04:00
binfmt_script.c exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path 2019-02-18 16:49:36 -08:00
block_dev.c blockdev: Fix livelocks on loop device 2019-01-15 07:30:56 -07:00
buffer.c fs: ratelimit __find_get_block_slow() failure message. 2019-02-06 12:58:56 -07:00
char_dev.c
compat_binfmt_elf.c y2038: globally rename compat_time to old_time32 2018-08-27 14:48:48 +02:00
compat_ioctl.c media updates for v4.20-rc1 2018-10-29 14:29:58 -07:00
compat.c
coredump.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
d_path.c
dax.c dax fix 4.21 2018-12-31 09:46:39 -08:00
dcache.c fs/dcache: Track & report number of negative dentries 2019-01-30 11:02:11 -08:00
dcookies.c
direct-io.c direct-io: allow direct writes to empty inodes 2019-01-22 08:26:44 -07:00
drop_caches.c fs/drop_caches.c: avoid softlockups in drop_pagecache_sb() 2019-02-01 15:46:24 -08:00
eventfd.c Revert changes to convert to ->poll_mask() and aio IOCB_CMD_POLL 2018-06-28 10:40:47 -07:00
eventpoll.c Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2019-01-05 09:16:18 -08:00
exec.c exec: Fix mem leak in kernel_read_file 2019-02-18 21:26:24 -05:00
fcntl.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
fhandle.c
file_table.c mm: convert totalram_pages and totalhigh_pages variables to atomic 2018-12-28 12:11:47 -08:00
file.c Char/Misc driver patches for 4.21-rc1 2018-12-28 20:54:57 -08:00
filesystems.c
fs_pin.c
fs_struct.c
fs-writeback.c writeback: synchronize sync(2) against cgroup writeback membership switches 2019-01-22 14:39:38 -07:00
inode.c Revert "mm: don't reclaim inodes with many attached pages" 2019-02-12 16:33:18 -08:00
internal.h overlayfs update for 4.19 2018-08-21 18:19:09 -07:00
ioctl.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
iomap.c iomap: fix a use after free in iomap_dio_rw 2019-01-27 08:47:42 -08:00
Kconfig
Kconfig.binfmt kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
libfs.c
locks.c locks: fix error in locks_move_blocks() 2019-01-02 20:14:50 -05:00
Makefile
mbcache.c
mount.h
mpage.c mpage: mpage_readpages() should submit IO as read-ahead 2018-08-17 16:20:29 -07:00
namei.c Revert "vfs: Allow userns root to call mknod on owned filesystems." 2018-12-22 14:18:34 -08:00
namespace.c Merge branch 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2019-03-04 13:24:27 -08:00
no-block.c
nsfs.c
open.c overlayfs update for 4.19 2018-08-21 18:19:09 -07:00
pipe.c Merge branch 'work.open3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2018-08-13 19:58:36 -07:00
pnode.c vfs: Suppress MS_* flag defs within the kernel unless explicitly enabled 2018-12-20 16:32:56 +00:00
pnode.h
posix_acl.c
proc_namespace.c
read_write.c get rid of legacy 'get_ds()' function 2019-03-04 10:50:14 -08:00
readdir.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
select.c Remove 'type' argument from access_ok() function 2019-01-03 18:57:57 -08:00
seq_file.c fs/seq_file.c: simplify seq_file iteration code and interface 2018-08-17 16:20:28 -07:00
signalfd.c signal: Distinguish between kernel_siginfo and siginfo 2018-10-03 16:47:43 +02:00
splice.c fs: Make splice() and tee() take into account O_NONBLOCK flag on pipes 2019-03-04 16:10:17 -08:00
stack.c
stat.c y2038: Remove newstat family from default syscall set 2018-08-29 15:42:20 +02:00
statfs.c kernel: add kcompat_sys_{f,}statfs64() 2018-07-12 14:49:48 +01:00
super.c mount_fs: suppress MAC on MS_SUBMOUNT as well as MS_KERNMOUNT 2018-12-21 11:51:23 -05:00
sync.c
timerfd.c y2038: globally rename compat_time to old_time32 2018-08-27 14:48:48 +02:00
userfaultfd.c userfaultfd: clear flag if remap event not enabled 2018-12-28 12:11:51 -08:00
utimes.c y2038: utimes: Rework #ifdef guards for compat syscalls 2018-08-29 15:42:23 +02:00
xattr.c sysfs: Do not return POSIX ACL xattrs via listxattr 2018-09-18 07:30:48 -04:00