I keep finding problems where an mddev gets reused and some fields has a value from a previous usage that confuses the new usage. So clear all fields that could possible need clearing when calling do_md_stop. Also initialise the 'level' of a new array to LEVEL_NONE (which isn't 0). Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c --- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2008-04-29 12:27:56.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2008-04-29 12:27:56.000000000 +1000 @@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ static mddev_t * mddev_find(dev_t unit) init_waitqueue_head(&new->sb_wait); new->reshape_position = MaxSector; new->resync_max = MaxSector; + new->level = LEVEL_NONE; new->queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL); if (!new->queue) { @@ -3713,6 +3714,30 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, i mddev->reshape_position = MaxSector; mddev->external = 0; mddev->persistent = 0; + mddev->level = LEVEL_NONE; + mddev->clevel[0] = 0; + mddev->flags = 0; + mddev->ro = 0; + mddev->metadata_type[0] = 0; + mddev->chunk_size = 0; + mddev->ctime = mddev->utime = 0; + mddev->layout = 0; + mddev->max_disks = 0; + mddev->events = 0; + mddev->delta_disks = 0; + mddev->new_level = LEVEL_NONE; + mddev->new_layout = 0; + mddev->new_chunk = 0; + mddev->curr_resync = 0; + mddev->resync_mismatches = 0; + mddev->suspend_lo = mddev->suspend_hi = 0; + mddev->sync_speed_min = mddev->sync_speed_max = 0; + mddev->recovery = 0; + mddev->in_sync = 0; + mddev->changed = 0; + mddev->degraded = 0; + mddev->barriers_work = 0; + mddev->safemode = 0; } else if (mddev->pers) printk(KERN_INFO "md: %s switched to read-only mode.\n", -- 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