[PATCH] man/man2/fanotify_mark.2: AT_FDCWD plus NULL path doesn't work

From: Jann Horn

Date: Fri May 29 2026 - 13:35:09 EST


The fanotify_mark.2 manpage claims that AT_FDCWD works with a NULL path,
but there is no kernel code for that - in fanotify_find_path(), in the
`if (filename == NULL)` block, the fd is only used for a normal FD
lookup.

This was also already the case when this manpage was written back in
2014, so remove the bogus documentation.

Fixes: c200b422d ("fanotify_mark.2: New page documenting fanotify_mark(2)")
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
man/man2/fanotify_mark.2 | 8 --------
1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/man2/fanotify_mark.2 b/man/man2/fanotify_mark.2
index e561ffd21..a3b77537c 100644
--- a/man/man2/fanotify_mark.2
+++ b/man/man2/fanotify_mark.2
@@ -560,14 +560,6 @@ defines the filesystem object to be marked.
.IP \[bu]
If
.I path
-is NULL, and
-.I dirfd
-takes the special value
-.BR AT_FDCWD ,
-the current working directory is to be marked.
-.IP \[bu]
-If
-.I path
is absolute, it defines the filesystem object to be marked, and
.I dirfd
is ignored.

---
base-commit: 9db8ca91f920b9aba40ed68de6b8da0ca9dbefaa
change-id: 20260529-fan-mark-cwd-1c760106eff9

Best regards,
--
Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>