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>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/stat.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/stat.h
index e0b1d9b..7b3ddc3 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 */