Commit 289fbc21ea5ac445dfb4326090b1912387e849b5

Authored by Christoph Hellwig
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 5c318bef5f

[PATCH] disallow modular binfmt_elf32

Currently most architectures either always build binfmt_elf32 in the kernel
image or make it a boolean option.  Only sparc64 and s390 allow to build it
modularly.  This patch turns the option into a boolean aswell because elf
requires various symbols that shouldn't be available to modules.  The most
urgent one is tasklist_lock whos export this patch series kills, but there
are others like force_sgi aswell.

Note that sparc doesn't allow a modular 32bit a.out handler either, and
that would be the more useful case as only few people want 32bit sunos
compatibility and 99.9% of all sparc64 users need 32bit linux native elf
support.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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119 119 default y
120 120  
121 121 config BINFMT_ELF32
122   - tristate "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
  122 + bool "Kernel support for 31 bit ELF binaries"
123 123 depends on COMPAT
124 124 help
125 125 This allows you to run 32-bit Linux/ELF binaries on your zSeries
arch/sparc64/Kconfig
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334 334 default y
335 335  
336 336 config BINFMT_ELF32
337   - tristate "Kernel support for 32-bit ELF binaries"
  337 + bool "Kernel support for 32-bit ELF binaries"
338 338 depends on SPARC32_COMPAT
339 339 help
340 340 This allows you to run 32-bit Linux/ELF binaries on your Ultra.