Sending a check/repair message infrequently leads to -EBUSY as oposed to identifying an active resync properly. Cause is raid_message() testing recovery bits in a racy way. Fix by calling decipher_sync_action() from raid_message() to identify the idle state of the RAID device properly. Signed-off-by: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/dm-raid.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c index e1dd1622a290..adcfe8ae10aa 100644 --- a/drivers/md/dm-raid.c +++ b/drivers/md/dm-raid.c @@ -3690,8 +3690,7 @@ static int raid_message(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned int argc, char **argv, set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery); md_reap_sync_thread(mddev); } - } else if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) || - test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery)) + } else if (decipher_sync_action(mddev, mddev->recovery) != st_idle) return -EBUSY; else if (!strcasecmp(argv[0], "resync")) ; /* MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED set below */ -- 2.19.2 -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel