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Subject[35/37] alpha: unbreak OSF/1 (a.out) binaries
2.6.25-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>

commit 2444e56b0c08e6f3e3877583841a1213e3263d98 upstream


OSF/1 brk(2) was broken by following one-liner in sys_brk()
(commit 4cc6028d4040f95cdb590a87db478b42b8be0508):

- if (brk < mm->end_code)
+ if (brk < mm->start_brk)
goto out;

The problem is that osf_set_program_attributes()
does update mm->end_code, but not mm->start_brk,
which still contains inappropriate value left from
binary loader, so brk() always fails.

Signed-off-by: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ osf_set_program_attributes(unsigned long
lock_kernel();
mm = current->mm;
mm->end_code = bss_start + bss_len;
+ mm->start_brk = bss_start + bss_len;
mm->brk = bss_start + bss_len;
#if 0
printk("set_program_attributes(%lx %lx %lx %lx)\n",
--


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