Re: [PATCH] binfmt_flat: Remove shared library support

[Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>]

On 4/21/22 8:12 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 8:52 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 21, 2022 at 1:53 AM Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>> On 21/4/22 00:58, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>> In a recent discussion[1] it was reported that the binfmt_flat library
>>>> support was only ever used on m68k and even on m68k has not been used
>>>> in a very long time.
>>>>
>>>> The structure of binfmt_flat is different from all of the other binfmt
>>>> implementations becasue of this shared library support and it made
>>>> life and code review more effort when I refactored the code in fs/exec.c.
>>>>
>>>> Since in practice the code is dead remove the binfmt_flat shared libarary
>>>> support and make maintenance of the code easier.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/81788b56-5b15-7308-38c7-c7f2502c4e15@linux-m68k.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
>>>> ---
>>>>
>>>> Can the binfmt_flat folks please verify that the shared library support
>>>> really isn't used?
>>>
>>> I can definitely confirm I don't use it on m68k. And I don't know of
>>> anyone that has used it in many years.
>>>
>>>
>>>> Was binfmt_flat being enabled on arm and sh the mistake it looks like?
>>
>> I think the question was intended to be
>>
>>      Was *binfmt_flat_shared_flat* being enabled on arm and sh the
>>      mistake it looks like?
>>
>>>>
>>>>    arch/arm/configs/lpc18xx_defconfig |   1 -
>>>>    arch/arm/configs/mps2_defconfig    |   1 -
>>>>    arch/arm/configs/stm32_defconfig   |   1 -
>>>>    arch/arm/configs/vf610m4_defconfig |   1 -
> 
> Adding stm32, mps2 and imxrt maintainers to Cc, they are the most active
> armv7-m users and should know if the shared library support is used anywhere.

Never seen shared library in use for flat format, so FWIW

Acked-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com> # ARM


> 
>       Arnd