[merged mm-nonmm-stable] elf-uapi-fixup-elf_st_type-definition.patch removed from -mm tree

[merged mm-nonmm-stable] elf-uapi-fixup-elf_st_type-definition.patch removed from -mm tree

[Andrew Morton]

The quilt patch titled
     Subject: ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     elf-uapi-fixup-elf_st_type-definition.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch\nof git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Subject: ELF, uapi: fixup ELF_ST_TYPE definition

This is very theoretical compile failure:

	ELF_ST_TYPE(st_info = A)

Cast will bind first and st_info will stop being lvalue:

	error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment

Given that the only use of this macro is

	ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info)

where st_info is "unsigned char" I've decided to remove cast especially
given that companion macro ELF_ST_BIND doesn't use cast.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/Ymv7G1BeX4kt3obz@localhost.localdomain
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 include/uapi/linux/elf.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h~elf-uapi-fixup-elf_st_type-definition
+++ a/include/uapi/linux/elf.h
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ typedef __s64	Elf64_Sxword;
 #define STT_TLS     6
 
 #define ELF_ST_BIND(x)		((x) >> 4)
-#define ELF_ST_TYPE(x)		(((unsigned int) x) & 0xf)
+#define ELF_ST_TYPE(x)		((x) & 0xf)
 #define ELF32_ST_BIND(x)	ELF_ST_BIND(x)
 #define ELF32_ST_TYPE(x)	ELF_ST_TYPE(x)
 #define ELF64_ST_BIND(x)	ELF_ST_BIND(x)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@gmail.com are