This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fanotify: Support null inode event in fanotify_dfid_inode to the 5.10-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: fanotify-support-null-inode-event-in-fanotify_dfid_i.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit bc844e528cb21b270bd6ec834a4504658ac4415c Author: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Oct 25 16:27:28 2021 -0300 fanotify: Support null inode event in fanotify_dfid_inode [ Upstream commit 12f47bf0f0990933d95d021d13d31bda010648fd ] FAN_FS_ERROR doesn't support DFID, but this function is still called for every event. The problem is that it is not capable of handling null inodes, which now can happen in case of superblock error events. For this case, just returning dir will be enough. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211025192746.66445-14-krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c index c620b4f6fe123..397ee623ff1e8 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c @@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ static struct inode *fanotify_dfid_inode(u32 event_mask, const void *data, if (event_mask & ALL_FSNOTIFY_DIRENT_EVENTS) return dir; - if (S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) + if (inode && S_ISDIR(inode->i_mode)) return inode; return dir;