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exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading
authorNir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>
Sat, 16 Nov 2024 23:13:23 +0000 (23:13 +0000)
committerKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:35:58 +0000 (19:35 -0800)
commitfa1bdca98d74472dcdb79cb948b54f63b5886c04
tree428332de6c40883aadf88df9012ffcb696a4738c
parent4188fc31a95e6c7a03c5859831d48ce646b26e46
exec: remove legacy custom binfmt modules autoloading

Problem: The search binary handler logic contains legacy code
to handle automatically loading kernel modules of unsupported
binary formats.
This logic is a leftover from a.out-to-ELF transition.
After removal of a.out support, this code has no use anymore.

Solution: Clean up this code from the search binary handler,
also remove the line initialising retval to -ENOENT and instead
just return -ENOEXEC if the flow has reached the end of the func.

Note: Anyone who might find future uses for this legacy code
would be better off using binfmt_misc to trigger whatever
module loading they might need - would be more flexible that way.

Suggested-by: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nir Lichtman <nir@lichtman.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241116231323.GA225987@lichtman.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
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