The commit f52f5c71f3d4 ("md: fix stopping sync thread") breaks the LVM2 test shell/lvconvert-raid-reshape-linear_to_raid6-single-type.sh There are many places that test for MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING or mddev->sync_thread. If we don't reap the thread, they would be confused. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f52f5c71f3d4 ("md: fix stopping sync thread") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v6.7 --- drivers/md/md.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/md.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/md.c @@ -6308,6 +6308,12 @@ static void md_clean(struct mddev *mddev static void __md_stop_writes(struct mddev *mddev) { stop_sync_thread(mddev, true, false); + + if (mddev->sync_thread) { + set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery); + md_reap_sync_thread(mddev); + } + del_timer_sync(&mddev->safemode_timer); if (mddev->pers && mddev->pers->quiesce) {