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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>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.