[PATCH] erofs: use on-disk blkszbits for lz4 max pcluster bound
From: Gyokhan Kochmarla
Date: Tue Oct 13 2026 - 07:50:20 EST
z_erofs_load_lz4_config() rejects a valid LZ4 image when the kernel's
page size differs from the image's block size. It bounds the on-disk
max_pclusterblks with erofs_blknr(sb, Z_EROFS_PCLUSTER_MAX_SIZE), which
expands to Z_EROFS_PCLUSTER_MAX_SIZE >> sb->s_blocksize_bits.
At the point this runs, sb->s_blocksize_bits still holds PAGE_SHIFT:
erofs_fc_fill_super() seeds s_blocksize_bits to PAGE_SHIFT before
reading the superblock, and only corrects it down to the on-disk
blkszbits after erofs_read_superblock() returns. The LZ4 config is
parsed inside erofs_read_superblock(), before that correction, so the
bound is computed with the wrong shift.
On a 64K-page kernel mounting a 4K-block image (e.g. one built with
mkfs.erofs -C 262144 on a 4K-page host), the bound evaluates to
1 MiB >> 16 = 16 blocks instead of the correct 1 MiB >> 12 = 256
blocks. The image's legitimate max_pclusterblks of 64 then fails the
check, mount returns -EINVAL, and booting from such an image as the
root filesystem panics:
erofs (device dm-0): too large lz4 pclusterblks 64
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs
sbi->blkszbits already holds the on-disk block size at this point, so
compute the bound from it directly. This makes the check independent of
the host page size and of superblock-parse ordering.
commit 3acea5fc3354 ("erofs: avoid hardcoded blocksize for subpage block
support") already handled the same ordering hazard for the superblock
checksum path by using sbi->blkszbits in erofs_superblock_csum_verify();
the lz4 config path was missed.
Fixes: 3acea5fc3354 ("erofs: avoid hardcoded blocksize for subpage block support")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Assisted-by: Kirocrew:gpt-5.6-sol
Signed-off-by: Gyokhan Kochmarla <gyokhan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Tested on arm64 (Graviton) with CONFIG_ARM64_64K_PAGES=y (64K pages),
mounting an LZ4 EROFS image built on a 4K-page host with 4K blocks and a
large pcluster (mkfs.erofs -zlz4 -C 262144 -b 4096, max_pclusterblks=64):
- Before: mount fails, dmesg "erofs: too large lz4 pclusterblks 64".
- After: mounts cleanly; file contents verified byte-for-byte.
A 4K-page kernel mounts the same image before and after (no regression).
fs/erofs/decompressor.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/fs/erofs/decompressor.c b/fs/erofs/decompressor.c
index 3c54e95964c9..00055d103da9 100644
--- a/fs/erofs/decompressor.c
+++ b/fs/erofs/decompressor.c
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ static int z_erofs_load_lz4_config(struct super_block *sb,
if (!sbi->lz4.max_pclusterblks) {
sbi->lz4.max_pclusterblks = 1; /* reserved case */
} else if (sbi->lz4.max_pclusterblks >
- erofs_blknr(sb, Z_EROFS_PCLUSTER_MAX_SIZE)) {
+ Z_EROFS_PCLUSTER_MAX_SIZE >> sbi->blkszbits) {
erofs_err(sb, "too large lz4 pclusterblks %u",
sbi->lz4.max_pclusterblks);
return -EINVAL;
--
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