When an array is started read-only, MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED can be set but no recovery will be running. This causes 'sync_action' to report the wrong value. We could remove the test for MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, but doing so would leave a small gap after requesting a sync action, where 'sync_action' would still report the old value. So make sure that for a read-only array, 'sync_action' always returns 'idle'. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c --- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2007-10-15 14:06:32.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2007-10-15 14:06:32.000000000 +1000 @@ -2714,7 +2714,7 @@ action_show(mddev_t *mddev, char *page) { char *type = "idle"; if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RUNNING, &mddev->recovery) || - test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery)) { + (!mddev->ro && test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery))) { if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RESHAPE, &mddev->recovery)) type = "reshape"; else if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &mddev->recovery)) { - 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