1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
index 24364106b8f9..48fc0c2ab0e5 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifssmb.c
@@ -4803,6 +4803,16 @@ setPermsRetry:
         pSMB->InformationLevel = cpu_to_le16(SMB_SET_FILE_UNIX_BASIC);
         pSMB->Reserved4 = 0;
         pSMB->hdr.smb_buf_length += byte_count;
+        /* Samba server ignores set of file size to zero due to bugs in some
+        older clients, but we should be precise - we use SetFileSize to
+        set file size and do not want to truncate file size to zero
+        accidently as happened on one Samba server beta by putting
+        zero instead of -1 here */ 
+        data_offset->EndOfFile = NO_CHANGE_64;
+        data_offset->NumOfBytes = NO_CHANGE_64;
+        data_offset->LastStatusChange = NO_CHANGE_64;
+        data_offset->LastAccessTime = NO_CHANGE_64;
+        data_offset->LastModificationTime = NO_CHANGE_64;
         data_offset->Uid = cpu_to_le64(uid);
         data_offset->Gid = cpu_to_le64(gid);
         /* better to leave device as zero when it is  */