linux-kernel - Fix for shared flat binary format in 2.6.30

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Date:	Mon, 22 Jun 2009 11:36:30 +0100
From:	Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@...nline.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Blackfin Architecture Team 
	<uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Fix for shared flat binary format in 2.6.30

This fixes a crash in 2.6.30 with shared flat binaries.  prepare_binfmt 
now requires a cred pointer to be set up, which isn't done in binfmt_flat.c.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schmidt <bernds_cb1@...nline.de>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
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