>>>>> "NeilBrown" == NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> writes: NeilBrown> Previously the array of disk information was included in NeilBrown> the raid5 'conf' structure which was allocated to an NeilBrown> appropriate size. This makes it awkward to change the size NeilBrown> of that array. So we split it off into a separate NeilBrown> kmalloced array which will require a little extra indexing, NeilBrown> but is much easier to grow. Neil, Instead of setting mddev->private = NULL, should you be doing a kfree on it as well when you are in an abort state? John - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html