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authorAl Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>2009-01-03 07:16:33 (GMT)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-01-03 19:45:54 (GMT)
commit3bfacef412b4bc993a8992217e50f1245f2fd3a6 (patch)
treebcf92bc34b30383dfc542f9850f59858681556cb /fs
parent17580d7f2f632ff8c9786d609508c35c9f56e1f3 (diff)
downloadlinux-3bfacef412b4bc993a8992217e50f1245f2fd3a6.tar.xz
get rid of special-casing the /sbin/loader on alpha
... just make it a binfmt handler like #! one. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c39
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index dfbf700..3ef9cf9 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@
#include <asm/tlb.h>
#include "internal.h"
-#ifdef __alpha__
-/* for /sbin/loader handling in search_binary_handler() */
-#include <linux/a.out.h>
-#endif
-
int core_uses_pid;
char core_pattern[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE] = "core";
int suid_dumpable = 0;
@@ -1172,41 +1167,7 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm,struct pt_regs *regs)
unsigned int depth = bprm->recursion_depth;
int try,retval;
struct linux_binfmt *fmt;
-#ifdef __alpha__
- /* handle /sbin/loader.. */
- {
- struct exec * eh = (struct exec *) bprm->buf;
- if (!bprm->loader && eh->fh.f_magic == 0x183 &&
- (eh->fh.f_flags & 0x3000) == 0x3000)
- {
- struct file * file;
- unsigned long loader;
-
- allow_write_access(bprm->file);
- fput(bprm->file);
- bprm->file = NULL;
-
- loader = bprm->vma->vm_end - sizeof(void *);
-
- file = open_exec("/sbin/loader");
- retval = PTR_ERR(file);
- if (IS_ERR(file))
- return retval;
-
- /* Remember if the application is TASO. */
- bprm->taso = eh->ah.entry < 0x100000000UL;
-
- bprm->file = file;
- bprm->loader = loader;
- retval = prepare_binprm(bprm);
- if (retval<0)
- return retval;
- /* should call search_binary_handler recursively here,
- but it does not matter */
- }
- }
-#endif
retval = security_bprm_check(bprm);
if (retval)
return retval;