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Eliminate 280-byte memset from ReadDir iterator

This guy:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1536ab1b383f21b38f8d49230a2aecc51daffa3d/library/std/src/sys/unix/fs.rs#L589

It turns out `libc::dirent64` is quite big—https://docs.rs/libc/0.2.135/libc/struct.dirent64.html. In #103135 this memset accounted for 0.9% of the runtime of iterating a big directory.

Almost none of the big zeroed value is ever used. We memcpy a tiny prefix (19 bytes) into it, and then read just 9 bytes (`d_ino` and `d_type`) back out. We can read exactly those 9 bytes we need directly from the original entry_ptr instead.

## History

This code got added in #93459 and tweaked in #94272 and #94750.

Prior to #93459, there was no memset but a full 280 bytes were being copied from the entry_ptr.

<table><tr><td>copy 280 bytes</td></tr></table>

This was not legal because not all of those bytes might be initialized, or even allocated, depending on the length of the directory entry's name, leading to a segfault. That PR fixed the segfault by creating a new zeroed dirent64 and copying just the guaranteed initialized prefix into it.

<table><tr><td>memset 280 bytes</td><td>copy 19 bytes</td></tr></table>

However this was still buggy because it used `addr_of!((*entry_ptr).d_name)`, which is considered UB by Miri in the case that the full extent of entry_ptr is not in bounds of the same allocation. (Arguably this shouldn't be a requirement, but here we are.)

The UB got fixed by #94272 by replacing `addr_of` with some pointer manipulation based on `offset_from`, but still fundamentally the same operation.

<table><tr><td>memset 280 bytes</td><td>copy 19 bytes</td></tr></table>

Then #94750 noticed that only 9 of those 19 bytes were even being used, so we could pick out only those 9 to put in the ReadDir value.

<table><tr><td>memset 280 bytes</td><td>copy 19 bytes</td><td>copy 9 bytes</td></tr></table>

After my PR we just grab the 9 needed bytes directly from entry_ptr.

<table><tr><td>copy 9 bytes</td></tr></table>

The resulting code is more complex but I believe still worthwhile to land for the following reason. This is an extremely straightforward thing to accomplish in C and clearly libc assumes that; literally just `entry_ptr->d_name`. The extra work in comparison to accomplish it in Rust is not an example of any actual safety being provided by Rust. I believe it's useful to have uncovered that and think about what could be done in the standard library or language to support this obvious operation better.

## References

- https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/readdir.3.html
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bors committed Oct 23, 2022
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85 changes: 65 additions & 20 deletions library/std/src/sys/unix/fs.rs
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use crate::fmt;
use crate::io::{self, BorrowedCursor, Error, IoSlice, IoSliceMut, SeekFrom};
use crate::mem;
#[cfg(any(
target_os = "android",
target_os = "linux",
target_os = "solaris",
target_os = "fuchsia",
target_os = "redox",
target_os = "illumos"
))]
use crate::mem::MaybeUninit;
use crate::os::unix::io::{AsFd, AsRawFd, BorrowedFd, FromRawFd, IntoRawFd};
use crate::path::{Path, PathBuf};
use crate::ptr;
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};
}

// Only d_reclen bytes of *entry_ptr are valid, so we can't just copy the
// whole thing (#93384). Instead, copy everything except the name.
let mut copy: dirent64 = mem::zeroed();
// Can't dereference entry_ptr, so use the local entry to get
// offsetof(struct dirent, d_name)
let copy_bytes = &mut copy as *mut _ as *mut u8;
let copy_name = &mut copy.d_name as *mut _ as *mut u8;
let name_offset = copy_name.offset_from(copy_bytes) as usize;
let entry_bytes = entry_ptr as *const u8;
let entry_name = entry_bytes.add(name_offset);
ptr::copy_nonoverlapping(entry_bytes, copy_bytes, name_offset);
// The dirent64 struct is a weird imaginary thing that isn't ever supposed
// to be worked with by value. Its trailing d_name field is declared
// variously as [c_char; 256] or [c_char; 1] on different systems but
// either way that size is meaningless; only the offset of d_name is
// meaningful. The dirent64 pointers that libc returns from readdir64 are
// allowed to point to allocations smaller _or_ LARGER than implied by the
// definition of the struct.
//
// As such, we need to be even more careful with dirent64 than if its
// contents were "simply" partially initialized data.
//
// Like for uninitialized contents, converting entry_ptr to `&dirent64`
// would not be legal. However, unique to dirent64 is that we don't even
// get to use `addr_of!((*entry_ptr).d_name)` because that operation
// requires the full extent of *entry_ptr to be in bounds of the same
// allocation, which is not necessarily the case here.
//
// Absent any other way to obtain a pointer to `(*entry_ptr).d_name`
// legally in Rust analogously to how it would be done in C, we instead
// need to make our own non-libc allocation that conforms to the weird
// imaginary definition of dirent64, and use that for a field offset
// computation.
macro_rules! offset_ptr {
($entry_ptr:expr, $field:ident) => {{
const OFFSET: isize = {
let delusion = MaybeUninit::<dirent64>::uninit();
let entry_ptr = delusion.as_ptr();
unsafe {
ptr::addr_of!((*entry_ptr).$field)
.cast::<u8>()
.offset_from(entry_ptr.cast::<u8>())
}
};
if true {
// Cast to the same type determined by the else branch.
$entry_ptr.byte_offset(OFFSET).cast::<_>()
} else {
#[allow(deref_nullptr)]
{
ptr::addr_of!((*ptr::null::<dirent64>()).$field)
}
}
}};
}

// d_name is guaranteed to be null-terminated.
let name = CStr::from_ptr(offset_ptr!(entry_ptr, d_name).cast());
let name_bytes = name.to_bytes();
if name_bytes == b"." || name_bytes == b".." {
continue;
}

let entry = dirent64_min {
d_ino: copy.d_ino as u64,
d_ino: *offset_ptr!(entry_ptr, d_ino) as u64,
#[cfg(not(any(target_os = "solaris", target_os = "illumos")))]
d_type: copy.d_type as u8,
d_type: *offset_ptr!(entry_ptr, d_type) as u8,
};

let ret = DirEntry {
return Some(Ok(DirEntry {
entry,
// d_name is guaranteed to be null-terminated.
name: CStr::from_ptr(entry_name as *const _).to_owned(),
name: name.to_owned(),
dir: Arc::clone(&self.inner),
};
if ret.name_bytes() != b"." && ret.name_bytes() != b".." {
return Some(Ok(ret));
}
}));
}
}
}
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