get rid of special-casing the /sbin/loader on alpha

... just make it a binfmt handler like #! one.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 39 deletions

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index dfbf7009fbe7..3ef9cf9b1871 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -57,11 +57,6 @@
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include "internal.h"
 
-#ifdef __alpha__
-/* for /sbin/loader handling in search_binary_handler() */
-#include <linux/a.out.h>
-#endif
-
 int core_uses_pid;
 char core_pattern[CORENAME_MAX_SIZE] = "core";
 int suid_dumpable = 0;
@@ -1172,41 +1167,7 @@ int search_binary_handler(struct linux_binprm *bprm,struct pt_regs *regs)
         unsigned int depth = bprm->recursion_depth;
         int try,retval;
         struct linux_binfmt *fmt;
-#ifdef __alpha__
-        /* handle /sbin/loader.. */
-        {
-            struct exec * eh = (struct exec *) bprm->buf;
 
-            if (!bprm->loader && eh->fh.f_magic == 0x183 &&
-                (eh->fh.f_flags & 0x3000) == 0x3000)
-            {
-                struct file * file;
-                unsigned long loader;
-
-                allow_write_access(bprm->file);
-                fput(bprm->file);
-                bprm->file = NULL;
-
-                loader = bprm->vma->vm_end - sizeof(void *);
-
-                file = open_exec("/sbin/loader");
-                retval = PTR_ERR(file);
-                if (IS_ERR(file))
-                        return retval;
-
-                /* Remember if the application is TASO.  */
-                bprm->taso = eh->ah.entry < 0x100000000UL;
-
-                bprm->file = file;
-                bprm->loader = loader;
-                retval = prepare_binprm(bprm);
-                if (retval<0)
-                        return retval;
-                /* should call search_binary_handler recursively here,
-                   but it does not matter */
-            }
-        }
-#endif
         retval = security_bprm_check(bprm);
         if (retval)
                 return retval;