This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header to the 6.2-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: alpha-boot-tools-objstrip-fix-the-check-for-elf-head.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.2 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 989cf5b4484dd18068f2ac2de2a405c05ad02053 Author: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Jan 9 00:14:02 2023 -0500 alpha/boot/tools/objstrip: fix the check for ELF header [ Upstream commit 1878787797cbb019eeefe6f905514dcd557302b6 ] Just memcmp() with ELFMAG - that's the normal way to do it in userland code, which that thing is. Besides, that has the benefit of actually building - str_has_prefix() is *NOT* present in <string.h>. Fixes: 5f14596e55de "alpha: Replace strncmp with str_has_prefix" Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c b/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c index 08b430d25a315..7cf92d172dce9 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c +++ b/arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ main (int argc, char *argv[]) #ifdef __ELF__ elf = (struct elfhdr *) buf; - if (elf->e_ident[0] == 0x7f && str_has_prefix((char *)elf->e_ident + 1, "ELF")) { + if (memcmp(&elf->e_ident[EI_MAG0], ELFMAG, SELFMAG) == 0) { if (elf->e_type != ET_EXEC) { fprintf(stderr, "%s: %s is not an ELF executable\n", prog_name, inname);