Re: [PATCH 1/4] exec: Change uselib(2) IS_SREG() failure to EACCES

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Mon May 18 2020 - 10:46:39 EST


On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 04:43:20PM +0200, Jann Horn wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2020 at 3:03 PM Christian Brauner
> <christian.brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Also - gulp (puts on flame proof suit) - may I suggest we check if there
> > are any distros out there that still set CONFIG_USELIB=y
>
> Debian seems to have it enabled on x86...
>
> https://salsa.debian.org/kernel-team/linux/-/blob/master/debian/config/kernelarch-x86/config#L1896
>
> A random Ubuntu 19.10 VM I have here has it enabled, too.

I wonder if there's any program - apart from _ancient_ glibc out there
that actually use it...
I looked at uselib in codsearch but the results were quite unspecific
but I didn't look too close.

Christian