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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linuxLinus Torvalds authored
Pull execve updates from Kees Cook: - Support non-BSS ELF segments with zero filesz Eric Biederman and I refactored ELF segment loading to handle the case where a segment has a smaller filesz than memsz. Traditionally linkers only did this for .bss and it was always the last segment. As a result, the kernel only handled this case when it was the last segment. We've had two recent cases where linkers were trying to use these kinds of segments for other reasons, and the were in the middle of the segment list. There was no good reason for the kernel not to support this, and the refactor actually ends up making things more readable too. - Enable namespaced binfmt_misc Christian Brauner has made it possible to use binfmt_misc with mount namespaces. This means some traditionally root-only interfaces (for adding/removing formats) are now more exposed (but believed to be safe). - ...
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