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Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> writes[1]:
> There was a Spec benchmark (I forget which) which was memory bound and ran
> twice as fast with 32-bit pointers.
>
> I copied the idea from DEC to the ELF abi, but never did all the other work
> to allow the toolchain to take advantage.
>
> Amusingly, a later Spec changed the benchmark data sets to not fit into a
> 32-bit address space, specifically because of this.
>
> I expect one could delete the ELF bit and personality and no one would
> notice. Not even the 10 remaining Alpha users.
In [2] it was pointed out that parts of setarch weren't working
properly on alpha because it has it's own SET_PERSONALITY
implementation. In the discussion that followed Richard Henderson
pointed out that the 32bit pointer support for alpha was never
completed.
Fix this by removing alpha's 32bit pointer support.
As a bit of paranoia refuse to execute any alpha binaries that have
the EF_ALPHA_32BIT flag set. Just in case someone somewhere has
binaries that try to use alpha's 32bit pointer support.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAFXwXrkgu=4Qn-v1PjnOR4SG0oUb9LSa0g6QXpBq4ttm52pJOQ@mail.gmail.com [1]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250103140148.370368-1-glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de [2]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Reviewed-by: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Reviewed-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Tested-by: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/87y0zfs26i.fsf_-_@email.froward.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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