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From: Aditya Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>
To: slava@dubeyko.com, glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de, frank.li@vivo.com
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>,
	syzbot+2bf21610eea63cb2ce93@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] hfs, hfsplus: remove WARN_ON when new bnode already hashed
Date: Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:17:14 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260622171715.1697-1-aditya.ansh182@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>

Syzbot reported a warning in hfsplus_bnode_create() when mounting and
traversing a fuzzed/corrupted disk image.

The warning is triggered because the node index is found to be already
active and hashed in the btree hash table, which indicates on-disk
metadata corruption.

Filesystem corruption should be handled gracefully by returning an error
and logging a message, rather than triggering kernel-level warnings
(which can panic the system under panic_on_warn=1 configurations).
The code already prints a critical message and returns -EEXIST (or the
node in hfs), so the WARN_ON() is completely redundant and dangerous.

Remove the WARN_ON(1) from both hfs_bnode_create() and
hfsplus_bnode_create().

Reported-by: syzbot+2bf21610eea63cb2ce93@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=2bf21610eea63cb2ce93
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Aditya Prakash Srivastava <aditya.ansh182@gmail.com>
---
 fs/hfs/bnode.c     | 1 -
 fs/hfsplus/bnode.c | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/hfs/bnode.c b/fs/hfs/bnode.c
index 13d58c51fc46..335834961741 100644
--- a/fs/hfs/bnode.c
+++ b/fs/hfs/bnode.c
@@ -517,7 +517,6 @@ struct hfs_bnode *hfs_bnode_create(struct hfs_btree *tree, u32 num)
 	spin_unlock(&tree->hash_lock);
 	if (node) {
 		pr_crit("new node %u already hashed?\n", num);
-		WARN_ON(1);
 		return node;
 	}
 	node = __hfs_bnode_create(tree, num);
diff --git a/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c b/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
index f8b5a8ae58ff..bfc2a7f53edd 100644
--- a/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
+++ b/fs/hfsplus/bnode.c
@@ -631,7 +631,6 @@ struct hfs_bnode *hfs_bnode_create(struct hfs_btree *tree, u32 num)
 	spin_unlock(&tree->hash_lock);
 	if (node) {
 		pr_crit("new node %u already hashed?\n", num);
-		WARN_ON(1);
 		return ERR_PTR(-EEXIST);
 	}
 	node = __hfs_bnode_create(tree, num);
-- 
2.47.3


             reply	other threads:[~2026-06-22 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-06-22 17:17 Aditya Srivastava [this message]
2026-06-23  6:03 ` Viacheslav Dubeyko

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