When mdadm falls in "reduce size" error on takeovered array it jumps to release and tries execute backward takeover. This time sra pointer is not initialized and coredump is generated. Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@xxxxxxxxx> --- Grow.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Grow.c b/Grow.c index 7cc6bae..f1a6218 100644 --- a/Grow.c +++ b/Grow.c @@ -1594,7 +1594,7 @@ static int reshape_array(char *container, int cfd, int fd, char *devname, unsigned long cache; unsigned long long array_size; int done; - struct mdinfo *sra; + struct mdinfo *sra = NULL; int info_reloaded = 0; @@ -1802,7 +1802,6 @@ static int reshape_array(char *container, int cfd, int fd, char *devname, sra = sysfs_read(fd, 0, GET_COMPONENT|GET_DEVS|GET_OFFSET|GET_STATE|GET_CHUNK| GET_CACHE); - if (!sra) { fprintf(stderr, Name ": %s: Cannot get array details from sysfs\n", devname); -- 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