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Pull arm64 fix from Will Deacon:
 "Rename and reallocate the PT_ARM_MEMTAG_MTE ELF segment type.

  This is a fix to the MTE ELF ABI for a bug that was added during the
  most recent merge window as part of the coredump support.

  The issue is that the value assigned to the new PT_ARM_MEMTAG_MTE
  segment type has already been allocated to PT_AARCH64_UNWIND by the
  ELF ABI, so we've bumped the value and changed the name of the
  identifier to be better aligned with the existing one"

* tag 'arm64-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arm64/linux:
  elf: Fix the arm64 MTE ELF segment name and value
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torvalds committed Apr 29, 2022
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions Documentation/arm64/memory-tagging-extension.rst
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Expand Up @@ -228,10 +228,10 @@ Core dump support
-----------------

The allocation tags for user memory mapped with ``PROT_MTE`` are dumped
in the core file as additional ``PT_ARM_MEMTAG_MTE`` segments. The
in the core file as additional ``PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE`` segments. The
program header for such segment is defined as:

:``p_type``: ``PT_ARM_MEMTAG_MTE``
:``p_type``: ``PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE``
:``p_flags``: 0
:``p_offset``: segment file offset
:``p_vaddr``: segment virtual address, same as the corresponding
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion arch/arm64/kernel/elfcore.c
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Expand Up @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ int elf_core_write_extra_phdrs(struct coredump_params *cprm, loff_t offset)
for_each_mte_vma(current, vma) {
struct elf_phdr phdr;

phdr.p_type = PT_ARM_MEMTAG_MTE;
phdr.p_type = PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE;
phdr.p_offset = offset;
phdr.p_vaddr = vma->vm_start;
phdr.p_paddr = 0;
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion include/uapi/linux/elf.h
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Expand Up @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ typedef __s64 Elf64_Sxword;


/* ARM MTE memory tag segment type */
#define PT_ARM_MEMTAG_MTE (PT_LOPROC + 0x1)
#define PT_AARCH64_MEMTAG_MTE (PT_LOPROC + 0x2)

/*
* Extended Numbering
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