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yaml
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r: 199814
b: refs/heads/master
c: 2e94de8
h: refs/heads/master
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 55adaa495edc429be84399f83df80dfb7f36598b
+refs/heads/master: 2e94de8acbe524d919f1ea8807913d7b005e1578

trunk/fs/binfmt_flat.c

@@ -56,15 +56,22 @@
 #endif
 
 /*
- * User data (stack, data section and bss) needs to be aligned
- * for the same reasons as SLAB memory is, and to the same amount.
- * Avoid duplicating architecture specific code by using the same
- * macro as with SLAB allocation:
+ * User data (data section and bss) needs to be aligned.
+ * We pick 0x20 here because it is the max value elf2flt has always
+ * used in producing FLAT files, and because it seems to be large
+ * enough to make all the gcc alignment related tests happy.
+ */
+#define FLAT_DATA_ALIGN	(0x20)
+
+/*
+ * User data (stack) also needs to be aligned.
+ * Here we can be a bit looser than the data sections since this
+ * needs to only meet arch ABI requirements.
  */
 #ifdef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
-#define FLAT_DATA_ALIGN	(ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
+#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN	(ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
 #else
-#define FLAT_DATA_ALIGN	(sizeof(void *))
+#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN	(sizeof(void *))
 #endif
 
 #define RELOC_FAILED 0xff00ff01		/* Relocation incorrect somewhere */
@@ -129,7 +136,7 @@ static unsigned long create_flat_tables(
 
 	sp = (unsigned long *)p;
 	sp -= (envc + argc + 2) + 1 + (flat_argvp_envp_on_stack() ? 2 : 0);
-	sp = (unsigned long *) ((unsigned long)sp & -FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
+	sp = (unsigned long *) ((unsigned long)sp & -FLAT_STACK_ALIGN);
 	argv = sp + 1 + (flat_argvp_envp_on_stack() ? 2 : 0);
 	envp = argv + (argc + 1);
 
@@ -876,7 +883,7 @@ static int load_flat_binary(struct linux_binprm * bprm, struct pt_regs * regs)
 	stack_len = TOP_OF_ARGS - bprm->p;             /* the strings */
 	stack_len += (bprm->argc + 1) * sizeof(char *); /* the argv array */
 	stack_len += (bprm->envc + 1) * sizeof(char *); /* the envp array */
-	stack_len += FLAT_DATA_ALIGN - 1;  /* reserve for upcoming alignment */
+	stack_len += FLAT_STACK_ALIGN - 1;  /* reserve for upcoming alignment */
 
 	res = load_flat_file(bprm, &libinfo, 0, &stack_len);
 	if (IS_ERR_VALUE(res))