The ELF core dump code has one use of off_t when writing out segments. Some
of the segments may be passed the 2GB limit of an off_t, even on a 32-bit
system, so it's important to use loff_t instead. This fixes a corrupted
core dump in the bigcore test in GDB's testsuite.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6.11/fs/binfmt_elf.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.11.orig/fs/binfmt_elf.c 2005-06-09 16:38:17.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.11/fs/binfmt_elf.c 2005-06-10 00:10:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -1125,7 +1125,7 @@ static int dump_write(struct file *file,
return file->f_op->write(file, addr, nr, &file->f_pos) == nr;
}
-static int dump_seek(struct file *file, off_t off)
+static int dump_seek(struct file *file, loff_t off)
{
if (file->f_op->llseek) {
if (file->f_op->llseek(file, off, 0) != off)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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