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SubjectRe: [PATCH 04/15] binfmt_flat: remove flat_old_ram_flag
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On 11/6/19 5:36 pm, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 04:04:39PM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote:
>>> index c0e4535dc1ec..18d82fd5f57c 100644
>>> --- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>> +++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
>>> @@ -488,7 +488,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
>>> * fix up the flags for the older format, there were all kinds
>>> * of endian hacks, this only works for the simple cases
>>> */
>>> - if (rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION && flat_old_ram_flag(flags))
>>> + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM) &&
>>> + rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION)
>>
>> The flags are from the binary file header here, so this is going to lose
>> that check for most platforms (except h8300 where it would always have
>> been true).
>
> Indeed. The old code is:
>
> if (rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION && flat_old_ram_flag(flags))
> flags = FLAT_FLAG_RAM;
>
> which for !h8300 evaluates to:
>
> if (rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION && flags)
> flags = FLAT_FLAG_RAM;
>
> so basically if any flag was set it was turned into FLAT_FLAG_RAM.
> Was that really intentional?

Probably not, looking at the flags. For the compressed flag it
makes some sense. But I don't think many of the others need load
to RAM behavior.


> I guess even if it wasn't the is no
> point in changing this historic behavior now.
>
> So I guess what we could do it something like:
>
> if (rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION &&
> (flags || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM)))
> flags = FLAT_FLAG_RAM;

Yeah, that to looks to preserve the old behavior.

Regards
Greg

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