diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
index c6f1c8c1934e3e2b5b075f79b8a4069416dbe97b..06fb7a93a1bd77922a697809b5345441f7dc3c4e 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
+++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
@@ -112,6 +112,9 @@ config BINFMT_FLAT_ARGVP_ENVP_ON_STACK
 config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM
 	bool
 
+config BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
+	bool
+
 config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD
 	bool "Enable support for very old legacy flat binaries"
 	depends on BINFMT_FLAT
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index b9c658e0548eb85328be7efcd7285accecbe6535..a1072c6a234143b0b50156820749e9213a0389c3 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
@@ -74,6 +74,12 @@
 #define	MAX_SHARED_LIBS			(1)
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_NO_DATA_START_OFFSET
+#define DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS		(0)
+#else
+#define DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS		(MAX_SHARED_LIBS)
+#endif
+
 struct lib_info {
 	struct {
 		unsigned long start_code;		/* Start of text segment */
@@ -576,7 +582,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 			goto err;
 		}
 
-		len = data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long);
+		len = data_len + extra +
+			DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(unsigned long);
 		len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
 		realdatastart = vm_mmap(NULL, 0, len,
 			PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 0);
@@ -591,7 +598,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 			goto err;
 		}
 		datapos = ALIGN(realdatastart +
-				MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(unsigned long),
+				DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(unsigned long),
 				FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
 
 		pr_debug("Allocated data+bss+stack (%u bytes): %lx\n",
@@ -622,7 +629,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 		memp_size = len;
 	} else {
 
-		len = text_len + data_len + extra + MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32);
+		len = text_len + data_len + extra +
+			DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32);
 		len = PAGE_ALIGN(len);
 		textpos = vm_mmap(NULL, 0, len,
 			PROT_READ | PROT_EXEC | PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE, 0);
@@ -638,7 +646,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 
 		realdatastart = textpos + ntohl(hdr->data_start);
 		datapos = ALIGN(realdatastart +
-				MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32),
+				DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32),
 				FLAT_DATA_ALIGN);
 
 		reloc = (__be32 __user *)
@@ -714,7 +722,7 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 			ret = result;
 			pr_err("Unable to read code+data+bss, errno %d\n", ret);
 			vm_munmap(textpos, text_len + data_len + extra +
-				MAX_SHARED_LIBS * sizeof(u32));
+				  DATA_START_OFFSET_WORDS * sizeof(u32));
 			goto err;
 		}
 	}