linux-kernel - [PATCH] initramfs: use vfs

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Message-Id: <20170314214932.4052842-1-arnd@arndb.de>
Date:   Tue, 14 Mar 2017 22:49:05 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] initramfs: use vfs_stat/lstat directly

sys_newlstat is a system call implementation that is meant for user
space, and that copies kernel-internal data structure to the user
format, which is not needed for in-kernel users.

Further, as we rearrange the system call implementation so we can
extend it with 64-bit time_t, the prototype for sys_newlstat changes.

This changes the initramfs code to use vfs_lstat directly, to get
it out of the way of the time_t changes, and make it slightly more
efficient in the process. Along the same lines we also replace
sys_stat and sys_stat64 with vfs_stat.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
---
Submitted before in June 2016, but no reply.

Andrew or Al, could one of you pick this up for v4.12?
---
 init/do_mounts.h | 22 ++++------------------
 init/initramfs.c | 12 ++++++------
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/init/do_mounts.h b/init/do_mounts.h
index 067af1d9e8b6..282d65bfd674 100644
--- a/init/do_mounts.h
+++ b/init/do_mounts.h
@@ -19,29 +19,15 @@ static inline int create_dev(char *name, dev_t dev)
 	return sys_mknod(name, S_IFBLK|0600, new_encode_dev(dev));
 }
 
-#if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
 static inline u32 bstat(char *name)
 {
-	struct stat64 stat;
-	if (sys_stat64(name, &stat) != 0)
+	struct kstat stat;
+	if (vfs_stat(name, &stat) != 0)
 		return 0;
-	if (!S_ISBLK(stat.st_mode))
+	if (!S_ISBLK(stat.mode))
 		return 0;
-	if (stat.st_rdev != (u32)stat.st_rdev)
-		return 0;
-	return stat.st_rdev;
-}
-#else
-static inline u32 bstat(char *name)
-{
-	struct stat stat;
-	if (sys_newstat(name, &stat) != 0)
-		return 0;
-	if (!S_ISBLK(stat.st_mode))
-		return 0;
-	return stat.st_rdev;
+	return stat.rdev;
 }
-#endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
 
diff --git a/init/initramfs.c b/init/initramfs.c
index 7eb7cb7cb9b9..83d514d0e69d 100644
--- a/init/initramfs.c
+++ b/init/initramfs.c
@@ -312,10 +312,10 @@ static int __init maybe_link(void)
 
 static void __init clean_path(char *path, umode_t fmode)
 {
-	struct stat st;
+	struct kstat st;
 
-	if (!sys_newlstat(path, &st) && (st.st_mode ^ fmode) & S_IFMT) {
-		if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+	if (!vfs_lstat(path, &st) && (st.mode ^ fmode) & S_IFMT) {
+		if (S_ISDIR(st.mode))
 			sys_rmdir(path);
 		else
 			sys_unlink(path);
@@ -581,13 +581,13 @@ static void __init clean_rootfs(void)
 	num = sys_getdents64(fd, dirp, BUF_SIZE);
 	while (num > 0) {
 		while (num > 0) {
-			struct stat st;
+			struct kstat st;
 			int ret;
 
-			ret = sys_newlstat(dirp->d_name, &st);
+			ret = vfs_lstat(dirp->d_name, &st);
 			WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
 			if (!ret) {
-				if (S_ISDIR(st.st_mode))
+				if (S_ISDIR(st.mode))
 					sys_rmdir(dirp->d_name);
 				else
 					sys_unlink(dirp->d_name);
-- 
2.9.0