From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Found when trying to reassemble an active externally managed array. Without this check we hit the more noisy "sysfs duplicate" warning in the later call to kobject_add. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxx> ### Diffstat output ./drivers/md/md.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff .prev/drivers/md/md.c ./drivers/md/md.c --- .prev/drivers/md/md.c 2008-04-29 12:27:57.000000000 +1000 +++ ./drivers/md/md.c 2008-04-29 12:27:57.000000000 +1000 @@ -1369,6 +1369,11 @@ static int bind_rdev_to_array(mdk_rdev_t MD_BUG(); return -EINVAL; } + + /* prevent duplicates */ + if (find_rdev(mddev, rdev->bdev->bd_dev)) + return -EEXIST; + /* make sure rdev->size exceeds mddev->size */ if (rdev->size && (mddev->size == 0 || rdev->size < mddev->size)) { if (mddev->pers) { -- 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