Patch "MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program headers." has been added to the 3.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

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@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 26f7c4bd05cf34e63a4a794150ab66a40a5a84a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2015 12:59:43 +0100
Subject: MIPS: elf2ecoff: Ignore PT_MIPS_ABIFLAGS program headers.

From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-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@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 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@linux-mips.org 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