From: Mike Frysinger on
The recent commit 1f0ce8b3dd667dca7 which moved the ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
default into the global header inadvertently broke FLAT for a bunch of
systems. Blackfin systems now fail on any FLAT exec with:
Unable to read code+data+bss, errno 14
When your /init is a FLAT binary, obviously this can be annoying ;).

This stems from the alignment usage in the FLAT loader. The behavior
before was that FLAT would default to ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN only if it was
defined, and this was only defined by arches when they wanted a larger
alignment value. Otherwise it'd default to pointer alignment. Arguably,
this is kind of hokey that the FLAT is semi-abusing defines it shouldn't.

But let's ignore that and simply ignore min alignment values of 0.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org>
---
v2
- split changes & document better

fs/binfmt_flat.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index b865622..4959a0a 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@
* Here we can be a bit looser than the data sections since this
* needs to only meet arch ABI requirements.
*/
-#ifdef ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
+#if defined(ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN) && ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN != 0
#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN)
#else
#define FLAT_STACK_ALIGN (sizeof(void *))
--
1.7.1

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