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: CLASS(fsnotify_group, group)(&fanotify_fsnotify_ops, FSNOTIFY_GROUP_USER); if (IS_ERR(group)) return PTR_ERR(group); Even we return from the path, the destructor is triggered, and the condition does not take IS_ERR() into account. if (_T) fsnotify_destroy_group(_T), Thus, fsnotify_destroy_group() could be called for ERR_PTR(). Let's fix the condition to !IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T). [0]: Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000003: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN PTI KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000018-0x000000000000001f] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6016 Comm: syz.0.17 Not tainted syzkaller #0 PREEMPT(full) Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 10/25/2025 RIP: 0010:kasan_byte_accessible+0x12/0x30 mm/kasan/generic.c:210 Code: 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 90 0f 1f 40 d6 48 c1 ef 03 48 b8 00 00 00 00 00 fc ff df <0f> b6 04 07 3c 08 0f 92 c0 e9 40 01 33 09 cc 66 66 66 66 66 66 2e RSP: 0018:ffffc90003147c10 EFLAGS: 00010207 RAX: dffffc0000000000 RBX: ffffffff8b5a8b4e RCX: 707d8ea8101f1b00 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff8b5a8b4e RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: ffffffff824e37fd R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: dffffc0000000000 R11: fffffbfff1c0c6f3 R12: 0000000000000000 R13: 000000000000001c R14: 000000000000001c R15: 0000000000000001 FS: 000055556de07500(0000) GS:ffff888125f8b000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f09c332b5a0 CR3: 00000000750b0000 CR4: 00000000003526f0 Call Trace: __kasan_check_byte+0x12/0x40 mm/kasan/common.c:572 kasan_check_byte include/linux/kasan.h:401 [inline] lock_acquire+0x84/0x340 kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5842 __raw_spin_lock include/linux/spinlock_api_smp.h:133 [inline] _raw_spin_lock+0x2e/0x40 kernel/locking/spinlock.c:154 spin_lock include/linux/spinlock.h:351 [inline] fsnotify_group_stop_queueing fs/notify/group.c:39 [inline] fsnotify_destroy_group+0x8d/0x320 fs/notify/group.c:58 class_fsnotify_group_destructor fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:1600 [inline] __do_sys_fanotify_init fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:1759 [inline] __se_sys_fanotify_init+0x991/0xbc0 fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c:1607 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline] do_syscall_64+0xfa/0xf80 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f RIP: 0033:0x7f09c338f749 Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48 RSP: 002b:00007ffd8b6be3e8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 000000000000012c RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007f09c35e5fa0 RCX: 00007f09c338f749 RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000f00 RBP: 00007ffd8b6be440 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001 R13: 00007f09c35e5fa0 R14: 00007f09c35e5fa0 R15: 0000000000000002 Modules linked in: Fixes: 3a6b564a6beb ("fanotify: convert fanotify_init() to FD_PREPARE()") Reported-by: syzbot+321168dfa622eda99689@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/6928b121.a70a0220.d98e3.0110.GAE@google.com/ Signed-off-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima --- fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c index be0a96ad4316..d0b9b984002f 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify_user.c @@ -1598,10 +1598,10 @@ static struct hlist_head *fanotify_alloc_merge_hash(void) } DEFINE_CLASS(fsnotify_group, - struct fsnotify_group *, - if (_T) fsnotify_destroy_group(_T), - fsnotify_alloc_group(ops, flags), - const struct fsnotify_ops *ops, int flags) + struct fsnotify_group *, + if (!IS_ERR_OR_NULL(_T)) fsnotify_destroy_group(_T), + fsnotify_alloc_group(ops, flags), + const struct fsnotify_ops *ops, int flags) /* fanotify syscalls */ SYSCALL_DEFINE2(fanotify_init, unsigned int, flags, unsigned int, event_f_flags) -- 2.52.0.158.g65b55ccf14-goog