Re: 2.4.25 MD RAID 1 driver - syncing hung due to I/O error

[Mark Bellon <mbellon@mvista.com>]

One of my disks has a bad block and hung while syncing (as the source of 
the sync) when it was read. A patch is attached for the fix.

The sync_request_done function is called after each sync I/O request 
completes regardless of the error outcome.
See end_sync_write and the "!sum_bhs" case a few lines above the patch 
location for references. If sync_request_done is not called the 
accounting is not updated and sooner or later things will hang. The 
R1BH_Uptodate not set case (read I/O error) does not do this and the 
problem occurs.

mark
--- raid1.c.orig	2004-03-23 17:18:29.000000000 -0700
+++ raid1.c	2004-03-23 17:18:48.000000000 -0700
@@ -1251,6 +1251,7 @@
 				 */
 
 				printk (IO_ERROR, partition_name(bh->b_dev), bh->b_blocknr);
+				sync_request_done(bh->b_blocknr, conf);
 				md_done_sync(mddev, bh->b_size>>9, 0);
 				raid1_free_buf(r1_bh);
 			}