'get_maintainer.pl --nogit --nogit-fallback' suggests adding below recipients.
I added them.

- Zi Yan <[email protected]>
- Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
- "Liam R. Howlett" <[email protected]>
- Nico Pache <[email protected]>
- Ryan Roberts <[email protected]>
- Dev Jain <[email protected]>
- Barry Song <[email protected]>
- Lance Yang <[email protected]>
- Usama Arif <[email protected]>
- Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
- Mike Rapoport <[email protected]>
- Suren Baghdasaryan <[email protected]>
- Michal Hocko <[email protected]>

On Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:44:26 +0530 Anshuman <[email protected]> wrote:

> get_finfo() calls stat() to get metadata about the target directory,
> but never checks the return value. On failure, stat() returns -1 and
> leaves path_stat unmodified, so path_stat.st_mode may contain
> uninitialized stack data.
> 
> The code then checks S_ISDIR(path_stat.st_mode) against this
> potentially garbage value. This can produce a misleading "Not a
> directory" error when the real problem is a nonexistent or
> inaccessible path, or, in the worst case, the check could pass by
> chance on garbage data and let the function continue using an
> invalid path_stat for the rest of its logic.
> 
> Check the return value and fail with a clear error message if
> stat() fails, matching the error-handling style already used for
> statfs() and read_file() later in the same function.

Makes sense to me.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: SJ Park <[email protected]>


Thanks,
SJ

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