The patch titled
Subject: fs/binfmt_elf: remove redundant elf_map ifndef
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-binfmt_elf-remove-redundant-elf_map-ifndef.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-binfmt_elf-remove-redundant-elf_map-ifndef.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-binfmt_elf-remove-redundant-elf_map-ifndef.patch
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From: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs/binfmt_elf: remove redundant elf_map ifndef
The ifndef was added a long time ago to support archs that would define
their own mapping function. The last user was the metag arch which was
removed from the tree, and as such there are no users left. Let's kill
it.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200402161543.4119-1-ailiop@xxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Anthony Iliopoulos <ailiop@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/binfmt_elf.c | 4 ----
1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~fs-binfmt_elf-remove-redundant-elf_map-ifndef
+++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -347,8 +347,6 @@ create_elf_tables(struct linux_binprm *b
return 0;
}
-#ifndef elf_map
-
static unsigned long elf_map(struct file *filep, unsigned long addr,
const struct elf_phdr *eppnt, int prot, int type,
unsigned long total_size)
@@ -388,8 +386,6 @@ static unsigned long elf_map(struct file
return(map_addr);
}
-#endif /* !elf_map */
-
static unsigned long total_mapping_size(const struct elf_phdr *cmds, int nr)
{
int i, first_idx = -1, last_idx = -1;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ailiop@xxxxxxxx are
fs-binfmt_elf-remove-redundant-elf_map-ifndef.patch
