linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 290/294] MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS

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Message-ID: <lsq.1510009382.351606074@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:03:02 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Ralf Baechle" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@...db.de>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 290/294] MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS
 program headers.

3.16.50-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>

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@...ux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 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  */
 
 /* -------------------------------------------------------------------- */
 
@@ -347,7 +348,8 @@ 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) {