linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v7 12/28] fanotify: Support null inode event in fanotify_dfid

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Date:   Fri, 15 Oct 2021 11:30:24 +0200
From:   Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>
Cc:     jack@...e.com, amir73il@...il.com, djwong@...nel.org,
        tytso@....edu, dhowells@...hat.com, khazhy@...gle.com,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-api@...r.kernel.org, repnop@...gle.com, kernel@...labora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 12/28] fanotify: Support null inode event in
 fanotify_dfid_inode

On Thu 14-10-21 18:36:30, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...labora.com>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>

								Honza

> ---
>  fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.c
> index c620b4f6fe12..397ee623ff1e 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;
> -- 
> 2.33.0
> 
-- 
Jan Kara <jack@...e.com>
SUSE Labs, CR