Re: [PATCH] binfmt: remove taso from linux_binprm struct

From: Kees Cook
Date: Thu Sep 29 2022 - 19:39:27 EST


On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 05:17:28PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > With commit 987f20a9dcce ("a.out: Remove the a.out implementation"), the
> > use of the special taso flag for alpha architectures in the linux_binprm
> > struct is gone.
> >
> > Remove the definition of taso in the linux_binprm struct.
> >
> > No functional change.
>
> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Alphas binfmt_loader is the only use I can find of that variable
> so let's kill it as well.

Ah, sorry, misparsed this -- you mean, alpha's use (now removed) was the
only place it was accessed. Agreed. :)

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Kees Cook