This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary(): return -EINVAL on zero-length mappings

to the 4.0-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     fs-binfmt_elf.c-load_elf_binary-return-einval-on-zero-length-mappings.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.0 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 2b1d3ae940acd11be44c6eced5873d47c2e00ffa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2015 15:44:24 -0700
Subject: fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary(): return -EINVAL on zero-length 
mappings

From: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>

commit 2b1d3ae940acd11be44c6eced5873d47c2e00ffa upstream.

load_elf_binary() returns `retval', not `error'.

Fixes: a87938b2e246b81b4fb ("fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bug in loading of PIE 
binaries")
Reported-by: James Hogan <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Davidson <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_
                        total_size = total_mapping_size(elf_phdata,
                                                        loc->elf_ex.e_phnum);
                        if (!total_size) {
-                               error = -EINVAL;
+                               retval = -EINVAL;
                                goto out_free_dentry;
                        }
                }


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
are

queue-4.0/mm-numa-really-disable-numa-balancing-by-default-on-single-node-machines.patch
queue-4.0/gfp-add-__gfp_noaccount.patch
queue-4.0/omfs-fix-sign-confusion-for-bitmap-loop-counter.patch
queue-4.0/fs-binfmt_elf.c-load_elf_binary-return-einval-on-zero-length-mappings.patch
queue-4.0/kernfs-do-not-account-ino_ida-allocations-to-memcg.patch
queue-4.0/tools-vm-fix-page-flags-build.patch
queue-4.0/fs-omfs-add-null-terminator-in-the-end-up-the-token-list.patch
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