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Commit b029628b authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by Kees Cook
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alpha/elf: Fix misc/setarch test of util-linux by removing 32bit support

Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes[1]:

> There was a Spec benchmark (I forget which) which was memory bound and ran
> twice as fast with 32-bit pointers.
>
> I copied the idea from DEC to the ELF abi, but never did all the other work
> to allow the toolchain to take advantage.
>
> Amusingly, a later Spec changed the benchmark data sets to not fit into a
> 32-bit address space, specifically because of this.
>
> I expect one could delete the ELF bit and personality and no one would
> notice. Not even the 10 remaining Alpha users.

In [2] it was pointed out that parts of setarch weren't working
properly on alpha because it has it's own SET_PERSONALITY
implementation.  In the discussion that followed Richard Henderson
pointed out that the 32bit pointer support for alpha was never
completed.

Fix this by removing alpha's 32bit pointer support.

As a bit of paranoia refuse to execute any alpha binaries that have
the EF_ALPHA_32BIT flag set.  Just in case someone somewhere has
binaries that try to use alpha's 32bit pointer support.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFXwXrkgu=4Qn-v1PjnOR4SG0oUb9LSa0g6QXpBq4ttm52pJOQ@mail.gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103140148.370368-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de

 [2]
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJohn Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Tested-by: default avatarJohn Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y0zfs26i.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org


Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
parent 55cf2f4b
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