diff --git a/bloom.c b/bloom.c
index e64e53bc4c..c24489dbcf 100644
--- a/bloom.c
+++ b/bloom.c
@@ -220,6 +220,23 @@ static void init_truncated_large_filter(struct bloom_filter *filter,
 	filter->version = version;
 }
 
+struct bloom_filter *get_bloom_filter(struct repository *r, struct commit *c)
+{
+	struct bloom_filter *filter;
+	int hash_version;
+
+	filter = get_or_compute_bloom_filter(r, c, 0, NULL, NULL);
+	if (!filter)
+		return NULL;
+
+	prepare_repo_settings(r);
+	hash_version = r->settings.commit_graph_changed_paths_version;
+
+	if (!(hash_version == -1 || hash_version == filter->version))
+		return NULL; /* unusable filter */
+	return filter;
+}
+
 struct bloom_filter *get_or_compute_bloom_filter(struct repository *r,
 						 struct commit *c,
 						 int compute_if_not_present,
@@ -245,7 +262,8 @@ struct bloom_filter *get_or_compute_bloom_filter(struct repository *r,
 						     filter, graph_pos);
 	}
 
-	if (filter->data && filter->len)
+	if ((filter->data && filter->len) &&
+	    (!settings || settings->hash_version == filter->version))
 		return filter;
 	if (!compute_if_not_present)
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/bloom.h b/bloom.h
index c9dd7d4022..052a993aab 100644
--- a/bloom.h
+++ b/bloom.h
@@ -108,8 +108,24 @@ struct bloom_filter *get_or_compute_bloom_filter(struct repository *r,
 						 const struct bloom_filter_settings *settings,
 						 enum bloom_filter_computed *computed);
 
-#define get_bloom_filter(r, c) get_or_compute_bloom_filter( \
-	(r), (c), 0, NULL, NULL)
+/*
+ * Find the Bloom filter associated with the given commit "c".
+ *
+ * If any of the following are true
+ *
+ *   - the repository does not have a commit-graph, or
+ *   - the repository disables reading from the commit-graph, or
+ *   - the given commit does not have a Bloom filter computed, or
+ *   - there is a Bloom filter for commit "c", but it cannot be read
+ *     because the filter uses an incompatible version of murmur3
+ *
+ * , then `get_bloom_filter()` will return NULL. Otherwise, the corresponding
+ * Bloom filter will be returned.
+ *
+ * For callers who wish to inspect Bloom filters with incompatible hash
+ * versions, use get_or_compute_bloom_filter().
+ */
+struct bloom_filter *get_bloom_filter(struct repository *r, struct commit *c);
 
 int bloom_filter_contains(const struct bloom_filter *filter,
 			  const struct bloom_key *key,