Patch "fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0." has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     fs-set-the-size-of-empty-dirs-to-0.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From 4b75de8615050c1b0dd8d7794838c42f74ed36ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:00:12 -0500
Subject: fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.

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: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 fs/libfs.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/fs/libfs.c
+++ b/fs/libfs.c
@@ -1185,7 +1185,7 @@ void make_empty_dir_inode(struct 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;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiederm@xmission.com are

queue-4.2/fs-set-the-size-of-empty-dirs-to-0.patch