FAILED: patch "[PATCH] xfs: complain loudly when dirtree checker finds broken links" failed to apply to 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.12-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.12.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x e09438cab72c2c6a32665829d4186155346bfee8
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026110432-statue-level-5b8e@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.12.y' 'HEAD^..'

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From e09438cab72c2c6a32665829d4186155346bfee8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 08:23:43 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] xfs: complain loudly when dirtree checker finds broken links

LOLLM observed that the directory tree walk code bails out if it finds
broken parent pointers along the way.  However, it flattens the return
code to zero, which means that we can end up in the repair code having
not completed the scan.  We should never proceed with a repair in this
state, so let's mark the scrub incomplete and exit.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v6.10
Fixes: 928b721a11789a ("xfs: teach online scrub to find directory tree structure problems")
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@kernel.org>
Assisted-by: LOLLM # finding obvious bugs
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Carlos Maiolino <cem@kernel.org>

diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/dirtree.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/dirtree.c
index 887383d2e941..11a9dea03d87 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/dirtree.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/dirtree.c
@@ -860,7 +860,8 @@ xchk_dirtree_find_paths_to_root(
 				 * A parent pointer of @sc->ip is bad, don't
 				 * bother continuing.
 				 */
-				break;
+				xchk_set_incomplete(sc);
+				return error;
 			}
 			if (error == -ESTALE) {
 				/* This had better be an invalidation. */
@@ -981,6 +982,7 @@ xchk_dirtree(
 		 * parent pointers are corrupt; this scan cannot be completed
 		 * without full information.
 		 */
+		xchk_set_incomplete(sc);
 		xchk_ip_xref_set_corrupt(sc, sc->ip);
 		error = 0;
 		goto out_scanlock;