new helper: dump_align()

dump_skip to given alignment...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index c56ae3264a65..864154972670 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1225,12 +1225,6 @@ static int notesize(struct memelfnote *en)
         return sz;
 }
 
-static int alignfile(struct coredump_params *cprm)
-{
-        static const char buf[4] = { 0, };
-        return dump_emit(cprm, buf, roundup(cprm->written, 4) - cprm->written);
-}
-
 static int writenote(struct memelfnote *men, struct coredump_params *cprm)
 {
         struct elf_note en;
@@ -1239,8 +1233,8 @@ static int writenote(struct memelfnote *men, struct coredump_params *cprm)
         en.n_type = men->type;
 
         return dump_emit(cprm, &en, sizeof(en)) &&
-            dump_emit(cprm, men->name, en.n_namesz) && alignfile(cprm) &&
-            dump_emit(cprm, men->data, men->datasz) && alignfile(cprm);
+            dump_emit(cprm, men->name, en.n_namesz) && dump_align(cprm, 4) &&
+            dump_emit(cprm, men->data, men->datasz) && dump_align(cprm, 4);
 }
 
 static void fill_elf_header(struct elfhdr *elf, int segs,