[PATCH v2 1/5] elfcore: Replace CONFIG_{IA64, UML} checks with a new option

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Jan 31 08:54:52 PST 2022


As arm64 is about to introduce MTE-specific phdrs in the core dump, add
a common CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_EXTRA_PHDRS option currently selectable
by UML_X86 and IA64.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com>
---
 arch/ia64/Kconfig       | 1 +
 arch/x86/um/Kconfig     | 1 +
 fs/Kconfig.binfmt       | 3 +++
 include/linux/elfcore.h | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/ia64/Kconfig b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
index a7e01573abd8..e003b2473c64 100644
--- a/arch/ia64/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/ia64/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ menu "Processor type and features"
 
 config IA64
 	bool
+	select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_EXTRA_PHDRS
 	select ARCH_HAS_DMA_MARK_CLEAN
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRNCPY_FROM_USER
 	select ARCH_HAS_STRNLEN_USER
diff --git a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
index 40d6a06e41c8..ead7e5b3a975 100644
--- a/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/um/Kconfig
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ endmenu
 
 config UML_X86
 	def_bool y
+	select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_EXTRA_PHDRS if X86_32
 
 config 64BIT
 	bool "64-bit kernel" if "$(SUBARCH)" = "x86"
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
index 4d5ae61580aa..68e586283764 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
+++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ config COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
 config ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE
 	bool
 
+config ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_EXTRA_PHDRS
+	bool
+
 config ARCH_HAVE_ELF_PROT
 	bool
 
diff --git a/include/linux/elfcore.h b/include/linux/elfcore.h
index 746e081879a5..b02d5fc711db 100644
--- a/include/linux/elfcore.h
+++ b/include/linux/elfcore.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ static inline int elf_core_copy_task_fpregs(struct task_struct *t, struct pt_reg
 #endif
 }
 
-#if (defined(CONFIG_UML) && defined(CONFIG_X86_32)) || defined(CONFIG_IA64)
+#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_EXTRA_PHDRS
 /*
  * These functions parameterize elf_core_dump in fs/binfmt_elf.c to write out
  * extra segments containing the gate DSO contents.  Dumping its
@@ -149,6 +149,6 @@ static inline size_t elf_core_extra_data_size(void)
 {
 	return 0;
 }
-#endif
+#endif /* CONFIG_ARCH_EXTRA_PHDRS */
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_ELFCORE_H */



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