diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/flat.h
index a185fe023b60..acf162111ee2 100644
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #define	flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()		1
-#define	flat_old_ram_flag(flags)		(flags)
 
 static inline int flat_get_addr_from_rp(u32 __user *rp, u32 relval, u32 flags,
 					u32 *addr, u32 *persistent)
diff --git a/arch/c6x/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/c6x/include/asm/flat.h
index c4d703b454c6..353e4d06e8c0 100644
--- a/arch/c6x/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/c6x/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #define flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()			0
-#define flat_old_ram_flag(flags)			(flags)
 static inline int flat_get_addr_from_rp(u32 __user *rp, u32 relval, u32 flags,
 					u32 *addr, u32 *persistent)
 {
diff --git a/arch/h8300/Kconfig b/arch/h8300/Kconfig
index ecfc4b4b6373..d30e8727b02d 100644
--- a/arch/h8300/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/h8300/Kconfig
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 config H8300
         def_bool y
 	select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T
+	select BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM
 	select GENERIC_ATOMIC64
 	select HAVE_UID16
 	select VIRT_TO_BUS
diff --git a/arch/h8300/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/h8300/include/asm/flat.h
index 7ef7eefded3d..14cc928d5478 100644
--- a/arch/h8300/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/h8300/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #define	flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()		1
-#define	flat_old_ram_flag(flags)		1
 
 /*
  * on the H8 a couple of the relocations have an instruction in the
diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/flat.h
index 217fa89c8e34..7b1fb5c2809e 100644
--- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -9,7 +9,6 @@
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
 
 #define	flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()		1
-#define	flat_old_ram_flag(flags)		(flags)
 static inline int flat_get_addr_from_rp(u32 __user *rp, u32 relval, u32 flags,
 					u32 *addr, u32 *persistent)
 {
diff --git a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/flat.h
index 846084fa7f04..1cd8d7f4cf12 100644
--- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #define	flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()	0
-#define	flat_old_ram_flag(flags)	(flags)
 
 /*
  * Microblaze works a little differently from other arches, because
diff --git a/arch/sh/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/sh/include/asm/flat.h
index 0d520b4cc5ea..015678d7b771 100644
--- a/arch/sh/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/sh/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #define	flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()		0
-#define	flat_old_ram_flag(flags)		(flags)
 static inline int flat_get_addr_from_rp(u32 __user *rp, u32 relval, u32 flags,
 					u32 *addr, u32 *persistent)
 {
diff --git a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/flat.h b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/flat.h
index a1d88aa3ef8a..b215c1e66958 100644
--- a/arch/xtensa/include/asm/flat.h
+++ b/arch/xtensa/include/asm/flat.h
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include <asm/unaligned.h>
 
 #define flat_argvp_envp_on_stack()			0
-#define flat_old_ram_flag(flags)			(flags)
 static inline int flat_get_addr_from_rp(u32 __user *rp, u32 relval, u32 flags,
 					u32 *addr, u32 *persistent)
 {
diff --git a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
index f87ddd1b6d72..5658e12ad944 100644
--- a/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
+++ b/fs/Kconfig.binfmt
@@ -97,6 +97,9 @@ config BINFMT_FLAT
 	help
 	  Support uClinux FLAT format binaries.
 
+config BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM
+	bool
+
 config BINFMT_ZFLAT
 	bool "Enable ZFLAT support"
 	depends on BINFMT_FLAT
diff --git a/fs/binfmt_flat.c b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
index c0e4535dc1ec..3e7f4a6cffa2 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_flat.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_flat.c
@@ -488,7 +488,8 @@ static int load_flat_file(struct linux_binprm *bprm,
 	 * fix up the flags for the older format,  there were all kinds
 	 * of endian hacks,  this only works for the simple cases
 	 */
-	if (rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION && flat_old_ram_flag(flags))
+	if (rev == OLD_FLAT_VERSION &&
+	   (flags || IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BINFMT_FLAT_OLD_ALWAYS_RAM)))
 		flags = FLAT_FLAG_RAM;
 
 #ifndef CONFIG_BINFMT_ZFLAT