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From: "srikrish" <srikrish@in.ibm.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] binfmt_elf.c SIGILL with large external static array on PPC64
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 11:53:55 +0530
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Andrew,
I found that Roland's patch addresses the issue in the same way that I had proposed. His patch looks fine. The return value of
set_brk function could be changed to unsigned long as do_brk returns unsigned long.

Srikrishnan

Andrew wrote:
>Yes.  I have queued up a patch for this from Roland Turner.  It is at

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-test10/2.6.0-test10-mm1/broken-out/fix-ELF-exec-with-huge-bss.patch

>Could you please review and test it?