This series deals with the warts in ELF compat on triarch architectures (x86_64 and mips64, that is). x86_64 at least does use compat_binfmt_elf.c for both 32bit ABIs; the way it is done is ugly as hell, though, and more than slightly brittle (see asm/compat.h for PRSTATUS_SIZE and SET_PR_FPVALID definitions - IMO that kind of magic is too ugly to live). mips64, OTOH, does not use compat_binfmt_elf.c for either of its 32bit ABIs. It has a couple of analogues (each with include of ../../../fs/binfmt_elf.c, BTW), with quite a bit of ancient cruft accumulated in those. Fortunately, cleanup of i386/x32 mess (first 3 commits in the series) provides a fairly straightforward way for mips64 to use fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c for both n32 and o32. That stuff had been sitting around since June; lately rdd has spotted Kconfig problems around COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF selects. All of them had been on configs that had COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF != COMPAT && BINFMT_ELF. For most of the architectures that's impossible to achieve, but some (sparc, e.g.) can end up with that. Randy posted a patch adding if BINFMT_ELF to selects that lacked it, but that looked wrong to me - why not centralize that logics into fs/Kconfig.binfmt? IOW, what's the point of having any such selects in arch/*/Kconfig? The answer (for mainline) is that mips compat does *NOT* want COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF. Not a problem with that series, though, so I'd retested it (seems to work, both for x86_64 and mips64, execs and coredumps for all ABIs alike), with centralization of Kconfig logics thrown in. It's based at 5.10-rc1 and lives in git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git#work.elf-compat I'll post the individual patches in followups. Shortlog: binfmt_elf: partially sanitize PRSTATUS_SIZE and SET_PR_FPVALID elf_prstatus: collect the common part (everything before pr_reg) into a struct [elfcore-compat][amd64] clean PRSTATUS_SIZE/SET_PR_FPVALID up properly mips binfmt_elf*32.c: use elfcore-compat.h mips: kill unused definitions in binfmt_elf[on]32.c mips: KVM_GUEST makes no sense for 64bit builds... mips compat: don't bother with ELF_ET_DYN_BASE mips: don't bother with ELF_CORE_EFLAGS mips compat: switch to compat_binfmt_elf.c Kconfig: regularize selection of CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF Diffstat: arch/Kconfig | 3 + arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 - arch/ia64/kernel/crash.c | 2 +- arch/mips/Kconfig | 8 +-- arch/mips/include/asm/elf.h | 56 +++++---------- arch/mips/include/asm/elfcore-compat.h | 29 ++++++++ arch/mips/kernel/Makefile | 4 +- arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfn32.c | 106 ---------------------------- arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfo32.c | 109 ----------------------------- arch/mips/kernel/scall64-n64.S | 2 +- arch/parisc/Kconfig | 1 - arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 1 - arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/opal-core.c | 6 +- arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 - arch/s390/kernel/crash_dump.c | 2 +- arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 - arch/x86/Kconfig | 2 +- arch/x86/include/asm/compat.h | 11 --- arch/x86/include/asm/elfcore-compat.h | 31 ++++++++ fs/Kconfig.binfmt | 2 +- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 19 +++-- fs/binfmt_elf_fdpic.c | 22 ++---- fs/compat_binfmt_elf.c | 1 + include/linux/elfcore-compat.h | 15 +++- include/linux/elfcore.h | 7 +- kernel/kexec_core.c | 2 +- 26 files changed, 127 insertions(+), 317 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/mips/include/asm/elfcore-compat.h delete mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfn32.c delete mode 100644 arch/mips/kernel/binfmt_elfo32.c create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/elfcore-compat.h