Re: [PATCH] fanotify: Don't call fsnotify_destroy_group() when fsnotify_alloc_group() fails.

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 27 Nov 2025 20:16:15 +0000, Kuniyuki Iwashima wrote:
> syzbot reported the splat in __do_sys_fanotify_init(). [0]
> 
> The cited commit introduced the fsnotify_group class.
> 
> The constructor is fsnotify_alloc_group() and could fail,
> so the error is handled this way:
> 
> [...]

Applied to the vfs-6.19.fd_prepare branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.19.fd_prepare branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

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tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
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[1/1] fanotify: Don't call fsnotify_destroy_group() when fsnotify_alloc_group() fails.
      https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/c2f27f6b8c79