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Date:   Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:36:28 -0700
From:   Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
To:     "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc:     Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt: remove taso from linux_binprm struct
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On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 05:17:28PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > With commit 987f20a9dcce ("a.out: Remove the a.out implementation"), the
> > use of the special taso flag for alpha architectures in the linux_binprm
> > struct is gone.
> >
> > Remove the definition of taso in the linux_binprm struct.
> >
> > No functional change.
> 
> Reviewed-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
> 
> Alphas binfmt_loader is the only use I can find of that variable
> so let's kill it as well.

I can't find anything using "taso". Where are you looking?

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Kees Cook