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[PATCH v6 01/10] include: pe.h: remove message[] from mz header definition

From: AKASHI Takahiro <hidden>
Date: 2017-10-24 06:21:31
Also in: kexec, lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

message[] field won't be part of the definition of mz header.

This change is crucial for enabling kexec_file_load on arm64 because
arm64's "Image" binary, as in PE format, doesn't have any data for it and
accordingly the following check in pefile_parse_binary() will fail:

	chkaddr(cursor, mz->peaddr, sizeof(*pe));

Signed-off-by: AKASHI Takahiro <redacted>
Reviewed-by: Ard Biesheuvel <redacted>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
 include/linux/pe.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pe.h b/include/linux/pe.h
index 143ce75be5f0..3482b18a48b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/pe.h
+++ b/include/linux/pe.h
@@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ struct mz_hdr {
 	uint16_t oem_info;	/* oem specific */
 	uint16_t reserved1[10];	/* reserved */
 	uint32_t peaddr;	/* address of pe header */
-	char     message[64];	/* message to print */
+	char     message[];	/* message to print */
 };
 
 struct mz_reloc {
-- 
2.14.1
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