When an array is changed from RAID6 to RAID5, fewer drives are
needed. So any device that is made superfluous by the level
conversion must be marked as not-active.
For the RAID6->RAID5 conversion, this will be a drive which only
has 'Q' blocks on it.
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 7 +++++++
1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 13535f0..5bd7896 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -2694,6 +2694,7 @@ level_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
ssize_t rv = len;
struct mdk_personality *pers;
void *priv;
+ mdk_rdev_t *rdev;
if (mddev->pers == NULL) {
if (len == 0)
@@ -2773,6 +2774,12 @@ level_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
mddev_suspend(mddev);
mddev->pers->stop(mddev);
module_put(mddev->pers->owner);
+ /* Invalidate devices that are now superfluous */
+ list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set)
+ if (rdev->raid_disk >= mddev->raid_disks) {
+ rdev->raid_disk = -1;
+ clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags);
+ }
mddev->pers = pers;
mddev->private = priv;
strlcpy(mddev->clevel, pers->name, sizeof(mddev->clevel));
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