2022-04-12 23:43:47

by Kees Cook

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Subject: [PATCH] init/Kconfig: Remove USELIB syscall by default

The uselib syscall has been long deprecated. There's no need to keep
this enabled by default under X86_32.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
---
init/Kconfig | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/Kconfig b/init/Kconfig
index ddcbefe535e9..5cddb9ba0eef 100644
--- a/init/Kconfig
+++ b/init/Kconfig
@@ -435,8 +435,8 @@ config CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH
See the man page for more details.

config USELIB
- bool "uselib syscall"
- def_bool ALPHA || M68K || SPARC || X86_32 || IA32_EMULATION
+ bool "uselib syscall (for libc5 and earlier)"
+ default ALPHA || M68K || SPARC
help
This option enables the uselib syscall, a system call used in the
dynamic linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this
--
2.32.0