fs: Set the size of empty dirs to 0.
authorEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:00:12 +0000 (15:00 -0500)
committerEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 20:28:45 +0000 (15:28 -0500)
commit4b75de8615050c1b0dd8d7794838c42f74ed36ba
treea1b3dcc1c29a83c639246650c3ac8ea02bd31b56
parentfaf00da544045fdc1454f3b9e6d7f65c841de302
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 <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
fs/libfs.c
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