+/*
+ * Given 'nhdr', a pointer to a range of ELF Notes, search through them
+ * for a note matching type 'elf_note_type' and return a pointer to
+ * the matching ELF note.
+ */
+static struct elf_note *glue(get_elf_note_type, SZ)(struct elf_note *nhdr,
+ elf_word note_size,
+ elf_word phdr_align,
+ elf_word elf_note_type)
+{
+ elf_word nhdr_size = sizeof(struct elf_note);
+ elf_word elf_note_entry_offset = 0;
+ elf_word note_type;
+ elf_word nhdr_namesz;
+ elf_word nhdr_descsz;
+
+ if (nhdr == NULL) {
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ note_type = nhdr->n_type;
+ while (note_type != elf_note_type) {
+ nhdr_namesz = nhdr->n_namesz;
+ nhdr_descsz = nhdr->n_descsz;
+
+ elf_note_entry_offset = nhdr_size +
+ QEMU_ALIGN_UP(nhdr_namesz, phdr_align) +
+ QEMU_ALIGN_UP(nhdr_descsz, phdr_align);
+
+ /*
+ * If the offset calculated in this iteration exceeds the
+ * supplied size, we are done and no matching note was found.
+ */
+ if (elf_note_entry_offset > note_size) {
+ return NULL;
+ }
+
+ /* skip to the next ELF Note entry */
+ nhdr = (void *)nhdr + elf_note_entry_offset;
+ note_type = nhdr->n_type;
+ }
+
+ return nhdr;
+}
+