When retrying a write due to barrier failure, we don't reset 'remaining', so it goes negative and never hits 0 again. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/raid1.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff ./drivers/md/raid1.c~current~ ./drivers/md/raid1.c --- ./drivers/md/raid1.c~current~ 2006-03-24 14:01:30.000000000 +1100 +++ ./drivers/md/raid1.c 2006-03-24 14:06:49.000000000 +1100 @@ -1402,6 +1402,9 @@ static void raid1d(mddev_t *mddev) clear_bit(R1BIO_BarrierRetry, &r1_bio->state); clear_bit(R1BIO_Barrier, &r1_bio->state); for (i=0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) + if (r1_bio->bios[i]) + atomic_inc(&r1_bio->remaining); + for (i=0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) if (r1_bio->bios[i]) { struct bio_vec *bvec; int j; - 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