diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c b/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c
index 285148100cde..0fe6cc3007f5 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-verity-fec.c
@@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ int verity_fec_decode(struct dm_verity *v, struct dm_verity_io *io,
 	fio->level++;
 
 	if (type == DM_VERITY_BLOCK_TYPE_METADATA)
-		block += v->data_blocks;
+		block = block - v->hash_start + v->data_blocks;
 
 	/*
 	 * For RS(M, N), the continuous FEC data is divided into blocks of N