[PATCH] fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.

Eric W. Biederman ebiederm at xmission.com
Wed Aug 12 20:07:19 UTC 2015


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 at vger.kernel.org
Reproted-by: Tejun Heo <tj at kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm at xmission.com>
---

I have tested this and will queue this up shortly.

 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;
 
-- 
2.2.1



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