ocfs2-add-validate-function-for-slot-map-blocks.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: ocfs2: add validate function for slot map blocks
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
ocfs2-add-validate-function-for-slot-map-blocks.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Prithvi Tambewagh <[email protected]>
Subject: ocfs2: add validate function for slot map blocks
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 00:15:57 +0530

When the filesystem is being mounted, the kernel panics while the data regarding slot map allocation to the local node, is being written to the disk. This occurs because the value of slot map buffer head block number, which should have been greater than or equal to OCFS2_SUPER_BLOCK_BLKNO (evaluating to 2) is less than it, indicative of disk metadata corruption. This triggers BUG_ON(bh->b_blocknr < OCFS2_SUPER_BLOCK_BLKNO) in ocfs2_write_block(), causing the kernel to panic.

This is fixed by introducing function ocfs2_validate_slot_map_block() to validate slot map blocks. It first checks if the buffer head passed to it is up to date and valid, else it panics the kernel at that point itself. Further, it contains an if condition block, which checks if bh->b_blocknr is lesser than OCFS2_SUPER_BLOCK_BLKNO; if yes, then ocfs2_error is called, which prints the error log, for debugging purposes, and the return value of ocfs2_error() is returned. If the if condition is false, value 0 is returned by ocfs2_validate_slot_map_block().

This function is used as validate function in calls to ocfs2_read_blocks() in ocfs2_refresh_slot_info() and ocfs2_map_slot_buffers().

---

 fs/ocfs2/slot_map.c |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ struct ocfs2_slot_info {
 static int __ocfs2_node_num_to_slot(struct ocfs2_slot_info *si,
 				    unsigned int node_num);
 
+static int ocfs2_validate_slot_map_block(struct super_block *sb,
+					  struct buffer_head *bh);
+
 static void ocfs2_invalidate_slot(struct ocfs2_slot_info *si,
 				  int slot_num)
 {

@@ -132,7 +135,8 @@ int ocfs2_refresh_slot_info(struct ocfs2
 	 * this is not true, the read of -1 (UINT64_MAX) will fail.
 	 */
 	ret = ocfs2_read_blocks(INODE_CACHE(si->si_inode), -1, si->si_blocks,
-				si->si_bh, OCFS2_BH_IGNORE_CACHE, NULL);
+				si->si_bh, OCFS2_BH_IGNORE_CACHE,
+				ocfs2_validate_slot_map_block);
 	if (ret == 0) {
 		spin_lock(&osb->osb_lock);
 		ocfs2_update_slot_info(si);

@@ -332,6 +336,24 @@ int ocfs2_clear_slot(struct ocfs2_super
 	return ocfs2_update_disk_slot(osb, osb->slot_info, slot_num);
 }
 
+static int ocfs2_validate_slot_map_block(struct super_block *sb,
+					  struct buffer_head *bh)
+{
+	int rc;
+
+	BUG_ON(!buffer_uptodate(bh));
+
+	if (bh->b_blocknr < OCFS2_SUPER_BLOCK_BLKNO) {
+		rc = ocfs2_error(sb,
+				 "Invalid Slot Map Buffer Head "
+				 "Block Number : %llu, Should be >= %d",
+				 (unsigned long long)bh->b_blocknr,
+				 OCFS2_SUPER_BLOCK_BLKNO);
+		return rc;
+	}
+	return 0;
+}
+
 static int ocfs2_map_slot_buffers(struct ocfs2_super *osb,
 				  struct ocfs2_slot_info *si)
 {

@@ -383,7 +405,8 @@ static int ocfs2_map_slot_buffers(struct
 
 		bh = NULL;  /* Acquire a fresh bh */
 		status = ocfs2_read_blocks(INODE_CACHE(si->si_inode), blkno,
-					   1, &bh, OCFS2_BH_IGNORE_CACHE, NULL);
+					   1, &bh, OCFS2_BH_IGNORE_CACHE,
+					   ocfs2_validate_slot_map_block);
 		if (status < 0) {
 			mlog_errno(status);
 			goto bail;

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