| From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 037/156] fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0. | Date | Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:36:18 -0700 |
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3.19.8-ckt8 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
commit 4b75de8615050c1b0dd8d7794838c42f74ed36ba upstream.
Before the make_empty_dir_inode calls were introduce into proc, sysfs, and sysctl those directories when stated reported an i_size of 0. make_empty_dir_inode started reporting an i_size of 2. At least one userspace application depended on stat returning i_size of 0. So modify make_empty_dir_inode to cause an i_size of 0 to be reported for these directories.
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- fs/libfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index e5dc742..3a5deb3 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -1176,7 +1176,7 @@ void make_empty_dir_inode(struct inode *inode) inode->i_uid = GLOBAL_ROOT_UID; inode->i_gid = GLOBAL_ROOT_GID; inode->i_rdev = 0; - inode->i_size = 2; + inode->i_size = 0; inode->i_blkbits = PAGE_SHIFT; inode->i_blocks = 0; -- 1.9.1
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