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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index 49566c1..b865622 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/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))
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