diff --git a/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h b/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h
index 2498d644827c..0efdf35aab2c 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/cifspdu.h
@@ -220,6 +220,9 @@
  */
 #define CIFS_NO_HANDLE        0xFFFF
 
+#define NO_CHANGE_64          0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFULL
+#define NO_CHANGE_32          0xFFFFFFFFUL
+
 /* IPC$ in ASCII */
 #define CIFS_IPC_RESOURCE "\x49\x50\x43\x24"
 
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 @@ CIFSSMBUnixSetPerms(const int xid, struct cifsTconInfo *tcon,
 	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  */