Re: a.out non demand page fix

ralf@uni-koblenz.de
Fri, 4 Sep 1998 01:02:21 +0200


On Wed, Sep 02, 1998 at 01:40:29PM +0000, Jes Sorensen wrote:

> I have an old patch pending for making non demand page executables
> work properly on architectures which are not cache coherent.
>
> Its for old code and probably a not very used file format these days,
> but it is actually a bugfix ;-)

You missed another occurance of this bug in binfmt_elf.c. Patch below.

Ralf

--- binfmt_elf.c.orig Fri Sep 4 00:51:06 1998
+++ binfmt_elf.c Fri Sep 4 00:56:28 1998
@@ -375,6 +375,8 @@
retval = read_exec(interpreter_dentry, offset, addr, text_data, 0);
if (retval < 0)
goto out;
+ flush_icache_range((unsigned long)addr,
+ (unsigned long)addr + text_data);

do_mmap(NULL, ELF_PAGESTART(text_data + ELF_EXEC_PAGESIZE - 1),
interp_ex->a_bss,

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