# Re: \[PATCH v7 12/28\] fanotify: Support null inode event in fanotify\_dfid\_inode

- From: Jan Kara \<jack@suse.cz\>
- Date: 2021-10-15 09:30:36 
- List: linux-api
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-api/2021/10/216067
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fsdevel/2021/10/215996/t.md

```text
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 <redacted>

Looks good. Feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.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 [ref]
SUSE Labs, CR
```