The patch titled
     BINFMT: fill_elf_header cleanup - use straight memset first
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     binfmt-fill_elf_header-cleanup-use-straight-memset-first.patch

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Subject: BINFMT: fill_elf_header cleanup - use straight memset first
From: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

This patch does simplify fill_elf_header function by setting
to zero the whole elf header first. So we fillup the fields
we really need only.

before:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  11735      80       0   11815    2e27 fs/binfmt_elf.o

after:
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
  11710      80       0   11790    2e0e fs/binfmt_elf.o

viola, 25 bytes of text is freed

Signed-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 fs/binfmt_elf.c |    9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
fs/binfmt_elf.c~binfmt-fill_elf_header-cleanup-use-straight-memset-first 
fs/binfmt_elf.c
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c~binfmt-fill_elf_header-cleanup-use-straight-memset-first
+++ a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -1276,26 +1276,23 @@ static int writenote(struct memelfnote *
 static void fill_elf_header(struct elfhdr *elf, int segs,
                            u16 machine, u32 flags, u8 osabi)
 {
+       memset(elf, 0, sizeof(*elf));
+
        memcpy(elf->e_ident, ELFMAG, SELFMAG);
        elf->e_ident[EI_CLASS] = ELF_CLASS;
        elf->e_ident[EI_DATA] = ELF_DATA;
        elf->e_ident[EI_VERSION] = EV_CURRENT;
        elf->e_ident[EI_OSABI] = ELF_OSABI;
-       memset(elf->e_ident+EI_PAD, 0, EI_NIDENT-EI_PAD);
 
        elf->e_type = ET_CORE;
        elf->e_machine = machine;
        elf->e_version = EV_CURRENT;
-       elf->e_entry = 0;
        elf->e_phoff = sizeof(struct elfhdr);
-       elf->e_shoff = 0;
        elf->e_flags = flags;
        elf->e_ehsize = sizeof(struct elfhdr);
        elf->e_phentsize = sizeof(struct elf_phdr);
        elf->e_phnum = segs;
-       elf->e_shentsize = 0;
-       elf->e_shnum = 0;
-       elf->e_shstrndx = 0;
+
        return;
 }
 
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
git-avr32.patch
git-dvb.patch
elf-use-ei_nident-instead-of-numeric-value.patch
binfmt-fill_elf_header-cleanup-use-straight-memset-first.patch

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