binfmt_flat: use fixed size type for the on-disk format

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So far binfmt_flat has only been supported on 32-bit platforms, so the
variable size of the fields didn't matter.  But the upcoming RISC-V
nommu port supports 64-bit CPUs, and we now have a conflict between
the elf2flt creation tool that always uses 32-bit fields and the kernel
that uses (unsigned) long field.  Switch to the userspace view as the
rest of the binfmt_flat format is completely architecture neutral,
and binfmt_flat isn't the right binary format for huge executables to
start with.

While we're at it also ensure these fields are using __be types as
they big endian and are byte swapped when loaded.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Murzin <vladimir.murzin@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@linux-m68k.org>

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Christoph Hellwig 2019-06-13 09:08:55 +02:00 • committed by Greg Ungerer

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