This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program headers.
to the 3.18-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:
mips-elf2ecoff-ignore-pt_mips_abiflags-program-headers.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 26f7c4bd05cf34e63a4a794150ab66a40a5a84a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 12:59:43 +0100
Subject: MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program headers.
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 26f7c4bd05cf34e63a4a794150ab66a40a5a84a9 upstream.
These are generated by very recent toolchains and result in an error
message when attenpting to convert a kernel from ELF to ECOFF.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c
+++ b/arch/mips/boot/elf2ecoff.c
@@ -49,7 +49,8 @@
/*
* Some extra ELF definitions
*/
-#define PT_MIPS_REGINFO 0x70000000 /* Register usage information */
+#define PT_MIPS_REGINFO 0x70000000 /* Register usage information */
+#define PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS 0x70000003 /* Records ABI related flags */
/* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
@@ -351,7 +352,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
/* Section types we can ignore... */
if (ph[i].p_type == PT_NULL || ph[i].p_type == PT_NOTE ||
ph[i].p_type == PT_PHDR
- || ph[i].p_type == PT_MIPS_REGINFO)
+ || ph[i].p_type == PT_MIPS_REGINFO
+ || ph[i].p_type == PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS)
continue;
/* Section types we can't handle... */
else if (ph[i].p_type != PT_LOAD) {
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/mips-kgdb-use-kernel-context-for-sleeping-threads.patch
queue-3.18/mips-elf2ecoff-ignore-pt_mips_abiflags-program-headers.patch
queue-3.18/mips-fix-crash-registers-on-non-crashing-cpus.patch
queue-3.18/mips-elf2ecoff-fix-warning-due-to-dead-code.patch