From 4b75de8615050c1b0dd8d7794838c42f74ed36ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:00:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0. 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. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reported-by: Tejun Heo Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" --- fs/libfs.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/libfs.c b/fs/libfs.c index 102edfd39000..c7cbfb092e94 100644 --- a/fs/libfs.c +++ b/fs/libfs.c @@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ 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; -- 2.39.5