The patch titled Subject: ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain has been added to the -mm mm-nonmm-unstable branch. Its filename is ocfs2-fix-kernel-bug-in-ocfs2_find_victim_chain.patch

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------------------------------------------------------ From: Prithvi Tambewagh activprithvi@gmail.com Subject: ocfs2: fix kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2025 18:37:11 +0530

syzbot reported a kernel BUG in ocfs2_find_victim_chain() because the `cl_next_free_rec` field of the allocation chain list (next free slot in the chain list) is 0, triggring the BUG_ON(!cl->cl_next_free_rec) condition in ocfs2_find_victim_chain() and panicking the kernel.

To fix this, an if condition is introduced in ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits(), just before calling ocfs2_find_victim_chain(), the code block in it being executed when either of the following conditions is true:

1. `cl_next_free_rec` is equal to 0, indicating that there are no free chains in the allocation chain list 2. `cl_next_free_rec` is greater than `cl_count` (the total number of chains in the allocation chain list)

Either of them being true is indicative of the fact that there are no chains left for usage.

This is addressed using ocfs2_error(), which prints the error log for debugging purposes, rather than panicking the kernel.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20251201130711.143900-1-activprithvi@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Prithvi Tambewagh activprithvi@gmail.com Reported-by: syzbot+96d38c6e1655c1420a72@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=96d38c6e1655c1420a72 Tested-by: syzbot+96d38c6e1655c1420a72@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Reviewed-by: Joseph Qi joseph.qi@linux.alibaba.com Cc: Mark Fasheh mark@fasheh.com Cc: Joel Becker jlbec@evilplan.org Cc: Junxiao Bi junxiao.bi@oracle.com Cc: Changwei Ge gechangwei@live.cn Cc: Jun Piao piaojun@huawei.com Cc: Heming Zhao heming.zhao@suse.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton akpm@linux-foundation.org ---

fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

--- a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c~ocfs2-fix-kernel-bug-in-ocfs2_find_victim_chain +++ a/fs/ocfs2/suballoc.c @@ -1993,6 +1993,16 @@ static int ocfs2_claim_suballoc_bits(str }

cl = (struct ocfs2_chain_list *) &fe->id2.i_chain; + if (!le16_to_cpu(cl->cl_next_free_rec) || + le16_to_cpu(cl->cl_next_free_rec) > le16_to_cpu(cl->cl_count)) { + status = ocfs2_error(ac->ac_inode->i_sb, + "Chain allocator dinode %llu has invalid next " + "free chain record %u, but only %u total\n", + (unsigned long long)le64_to_cpu(fe->i_blkno), + le16_to_cpu(cl->cl_next_free_rec), + le16_to_cpu(cl->cl_count)); + goto bail; + }

victim = ocfs2_find_victim_chain(cl); ac->ac_chain = victim; _

Patches currently in -mm which might be from activprithvi@gmail.com are

ocfs2-fix-kernel-bug-in-ocfs2_find_victim_chain.patch