Messages in this thread | | | From | David Laight <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH] x86: Remove a.out support | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2022 02:08:31 +0000 |
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From: James Jones > Sent: 17 March 2022 02:05 > > On 3/16/22 3:30 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 01:38:31PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > >> is in the end, but it's likely easier than a standalone a.out loader > >> in user space, or a conversion to ELF format. > > > > Yeah, the exec format is really simple. The only tricky bit was preparing > > the stack and making sure everything landed in the right place for text > > and data. James, can you try this? aln and mac run for me, but I'm not > > actually exercising them beyond dumping argument lists, etc: > > > > https://github.com/kees/kernel-tools/tree/trunk/a.out > > Yes, works perfectly, thank you. I like the idea of using this much > better than getting emailed every time someone wants to delete the a.out > code again. Consider my use case withdrawn. I've already pushed an > update to my jaguar-sdk project to use this tool instead.
Just every time the someone wants to delete the associated system calls :-)
David
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