[q] ELF program header table size <= 64K ?

Tigran Aivazian (tigran@sco.COM)
Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:09:25 +0100 (BST)


Hi,

Why does do_load_elf_binary() fail if the program header table size
(e_phentsize * e_phnum) is greater than 65536 bytes? If it is because in
some old versions kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) couldn't get more than 64K (although
the earliest I remember could get 120K or so) then it should be removed.
But if there is some other reason, I would like to know.

Regards,
Tigran.

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