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Linus Torvalds
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Pull vfs fix from Christian Brauner: "A fix for the backing file work from this cycle. When init_file() failed it would call file_free_rcu() on the file allocated by the caller of init_file(). It naively assumed that the correct cleanup operation would be called depending on whether it is a regular file or a backing file. However, that presupposes that the FMODE_BACKING flag would already be set which it won't be as that is done in the caller of init_file(). Fix that bug by moving the cleanup of the allocated file into the caller where it belongs in the first place. There's no good reason for init_file() to consume resources it didn't allocate. This is a mainline only fix and was reported by syzbot. The fix was validated by syzbot against the provided reproducer" * tag 'v6.5/vfs.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs: fs: move cleanup from init_file() into its callers
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