The patch titled Subject: ELF: simplify STACK_ALLOC macro has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is elf-simplify-stack_alloc-macro.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/elf-simplify-stack_alloc-macro.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/elf-simplify-stack_alloc-macro.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: ELF: simplify STACK_ALLOC macro "A -= B; A" is equivalent to "A -= B". Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YVmcP256fRMqCwgK@localhost.localdomain 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-simplify-stack_alloc-macro +++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ static int padzero(unsigned long elf_bss #define STACK_ADD(sp, items) ((elf_addr_t __user *)(sp) - (items)) #define STACK_ROUND(sp, items) \ (((unsigned long) (sp - items)) &~ 15UL) -#define STACK_ALLOC(sp, len) ({ sp -= len ; sp; }) +#define STACK_ALLOC(sp, len) (sp -= len) #endif #ifndef ELF_BASE_PLATFORM _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are lib-uninline-simple_strntoull-as-well.patch elf-fix-overflow-in-total-mapping-size-calculation.patch elf-simplify-stack_alloc-macro.patch