[PATCH] zero out i_blocks in get_pipe_inode

[Martin J. Bligh]

Fished from the 2.4 SuSE tree, which I'm trawling through.
This seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do to me,
there was some discussion earlier on IRC. Some extracts from
the conversation were "returning random old data from the kernel 
is always a bug", "any userland code that trips on that one is 
broken", and "iirc it broke postfix". Nobody seemed to think it
was actively evil, and it seems to fix a bug ;-)

diff -purN -X /home/mbligh/.diff.exclude virgin/fs/pipe.c pipe_init/fs/pipe.c
--- virgin/fs/pipe.c	2003-10-14 15:50:30.000000000 -0700
+++ pipe_init/fs/pipe.c	2003-11-11 12:13:32.000000000 -0800
@@ -527,6 +527,7 @@ static struct inode * get_pipe_inode(voi
 	inode->i_gid = current->fsgid;
 	inode->i_atime = inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
 	inode->i_blksize = PAGE_SIZE;
+	inode->i_blocks = 0;
 	return inode;
 
 fail_iput:

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