Re: [PATCH] x86: Deprecate a.out support

[Al Viro]

On Sun, Mar 10, 2019 at 03:40:20PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(osf_readv, unsigned long, fd,
>  		const struct iovec __user *, vector, unsigned long, count)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT
> -	if (unlikely(personality(current->personality) == PER_OSF4))
> -		if (osf_fix_iov_len(vector, count))
> -			return -EFAULT;
> -#endif
> -
>  	return sys_readv(fd, vector, count);
>  }
>  
>  SYSCALL_DEFINE3(osf_writev, unsigned long, fd,
>  		const struct iovec __user *, vector, unsigned long, count)
>  {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT
> -	if (unlikely(personality(current->personality) == PER_OSF4))
> -		if (osf_fix_iov_len(vector, count))
> -			return -EFAULT;
> -#endif
>  	return sys_writev(fd, vector, count);
>  }

Might as well kill those two off, while we are at it - just use sys_readv/sys_writev
in arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl and be done with that...