4.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 125892edfe69915a227d8d125ff0e1cd713178f4 upstream. Commit 4d97f7d53da7dc83 ("inotify: Add flag IN_MASK_CREATE for inotify_add_watch()") forgot to call fdput() before bailing out. Fixes: 4d97f7d53da7dc83 ("inotify: Add flag IN_MASK_CREATE for inotify_add_watch()") CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/inotify/inotify_user.c @@ -724,8 +724,10 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(inotify_add_watch, int, return -EBADF; /* IN_MASK_ADD and IN_MASK_CREATE don't make sense together */ - if (unlikely((mask & IN_MASK_ADD) && (mask & IN_MASK_CREATE))) - return -EINVAL; + if (unlikely((mask & IN_MASK_ADD) && (mask & IN_MASK_CREATE))) { + ret = -EINVAL; + goto fput_and_out; + } /* verify that this is indeed an inotify instance */ if (unlikely(f.file->f_op != &inotify_fops)) {