From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46747 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754730AbbISQIE (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:08:04 -0400 Subject: Patch "fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0." has been added to the 4.2-stable tree To: ebiederm@xmission.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, tj@kernel.org Cc: , From: Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2015 09:08:02 -0700 Message-ID: <144267888246143@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ANSI_X3.4-1968 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: stable-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 know about it. >>From 4b75de8615050c1b0dd8d7794838c42f74ed36ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2015 15:00:12 -0500 Subject: fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0. From: "Eric W. Biederman" 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 Acked-by: Tejun Heo Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- 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