vfs: don't force a big memset of stat data just to clear padding fields

Admittedly this is something that the compiler should be able to just do
for us, but gcc just isn't that smart.  And trying to use a structure
initializer (which would get us the right semantics) ends up resulting
in gcc allocating stack space for _two_ 'struct stat', and then copying
one into the other.

So do it by hand - just have a per-architecture macro that initializes
the padding fields.  And if the architecture doesn't provide one, fall
back to the old behavior of just doing the whole memset() first.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

2 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stat.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stat.h
index e0b1d9bbcbc..7b3ddc34858 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/stat.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/stat.h
@@ -25,6 +25,12 @@ struct stat {
 	unsigned long  __unused5;
 };
 
+/* We don't need to memset the whole thing just to initialize the padding */
+#define INIT_STRUCT_STAT_PADDING(st) do {	\
+	st.__unused4 = 0;			\
+	st.__unused5 = 0;			\
+} while (0)
+
 #define STAT64_HAS_BROKEN_ST_INO	1
 
 /* This matches struct stat64 in glibc2.1, hence the absolutely
@@ -63,6 +69,12 @@ struct stat64 {
 	unsigned long long	st_ino;
 };
 
+/* We don't need to memset the whole thing just to initialize the padding */
+#define INIT_STRUCT_STAT64_PADDING(st) do {		\
+	memset(&st.__pad0, 0, sizeof(st.__pad0));	\
+	memset(&st.__pad3, 0, sizeof(st.__pad3));	\
+} while (0)
+
 #else /* __i386__ */
 
 struct stat {
@@ -87,6 +99,15 @@ struct stat {
 	unsigned long   st_ctime_nsec;
 	long		__unused[3];
 };
+
+/* We don't need to memset the whole thing just to initialize the padding */
+#define INIT_STRUCT_STAT_PADDING(st) do {	\
+	st.__pad0 = 0;				\
+	st.__unused[0] = 0;			\
+	st.__unused[1] = 0;			\
+	st.__unused[2] = 0;			\
+} while (0)
+
 #endif
 
 /* for 32bit emulation and 32 bit kernels */
diff --git a/fs/stat.c b/fs/stat.c
index 2b5d55eb9d9..b30ac60291e 100644
--- a/fs/stat.c
+++ b/fs/stat.c
@@ -199,6 +199,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fstat, unsigned int, fd, struct __old_kernel_stat __user *, stat
 #define valid_dev(x)  choose_32_64(old_valid_dev,new_valid_dev)(x)
 #define encode_dev(x) choose_32_64(old_encode_dev,new_encode_dev)(x)
 
+#ifndef INIT_STRUCT_STAT_PADDING
+#  define INIT_STRUCT_STAT_PADDING(st) memset(&st, 0, sizeof(st))
+#endif
+
 static int cp_new_stat(struct kstat *stat, struct stat __user *statbuf)
 {
 	struct stat tmp;
@@ -210,7 +214,7 @@ static int cp_new_stat(struct kstat *stat, struct stat __user *statbuf)
 		return -EOVERFLOW;
 #endif
 
-	memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(tmp));
+	INIT_STRUCT_STAT_PADDING(tmp);
 	tmp.st_dev = encode_dev(stat->dev);
 	tmp.st_ino = stat->ino;
 	if (sizeof(tmp.st_ino) < sizeof(stat->ino) && tmp.st_ino != stat->ino)
@@ -323,11 +327,15 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(readlink, const char __user *, path, char __user *, buf,
 /* ---------- LFS-64 ----------- */
 #ifdef __ARCH_WANT_STAT64
 
+#ifndef INIT_STRUCT_STAT64_PADDING
+#  define INIT_STRUCT_STAT64_PADDING(st) memset(&st, 0, sizeof(st))
+#endif
+
 static long cp_new_stat64(struct kstat *stat, struct stat64 __user *statbuf)
 {
 	struct stat64 tmp;
 
-	memset(&tmp, 0, sizeof(struct stat64));
+	INIT_STRUCT_STAT64_PADDING(tmp);
 #ifdef CONFIG_MIPS
 	/* mips has weird padding, so we don't get 64 bits there */
 	if (!new_valid_dev(stat->dev) || !new_valid_dev(stat->rdev))