The patch titled Subject: fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix ->start_code calculation has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is elf-fix-start_code-calculation.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/elf-fix-start_code-calculation.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/elf-fix-start_code-calculation.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix ->start_code calculation Only executable segments should be accounted to ->start_code just like they do to ->end_code (correctly). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191208171410.GB19716@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/binfmt_elf.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~elf-fix-start_code-calculation +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -999,7 +999,7 @@ out_free_interp: } } k = elf_ppnt->p_vaddr; - if (k < start_code) + if ((elf_ppnt->p_flags & PF_X) && k < start_code) start_code = k; if (start_data < k) start_data = k; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are ramfs-support-o_tmpfile.patch elf-smaller-code-generation-around-auxv-vector-fill.patch elf-fix-start_code-calculation.patch execve-warn-if-process-starts-with-executable-stack.patch