Looks like we have hit a corner case.
After the command "mkdir /base" was issued the vfs/ufs pulls up the inode 2 (inode for root) and start to lookup space to create a directory entry for /base
It pulls out the dirhash for inode 2 and sees there is space of this directory entry at block 29,
Block 29 is read from the disk to the memory and now we start looking for the free space in this block(block size 512 Bytes)
While iterating over the entries it reaches the very end of the block.
This condition is however not handled by ufsdirhash_findfree (i == 512) and we hit the panic
ufsdirhash_findfree (ip=<optimized out>, slotneeded=16, slotsize=0xfffffe99a1441590)
{F24811467}
{F24811473}
{F24811482}