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[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 031/133] fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.

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  [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 031/133] fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0. Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com> - 2015-09-30 12:40 +0200

#1236088 — [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 031/133] fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.

3.16.7-ckt18 -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: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
---
 fs/libfs.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c
index c4c5f7223477..5ba7e10d6b23 100644
--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1158,7 +1158,7 @@ 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;
 
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