Re: [PATCH 1/2] md/raid5: FIX: manually-added spare is not used

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On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 10:11:28 +1100 NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 14:00:00 +0100 Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Manually added spares are not used due to fact that they not added to md configuration.
> > Counters are updated only.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Adam Kwolek <adam.kwolek@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > 
> >  drivers/md/raid5.c |    6 ++++--
> >  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > index a2087c7..59c4150 100644
> > --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > @@ -5592,8 +5592,10 @@ static int raid5_start_reshape(mddev_t *mddev)
> >  		} else if (rdev->raid_disk >= conf->previous_raid_disks
> >  			   && !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) {
> >  			/* This is a spare that was manually added */
> > -			set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags);
> > -			added_devices++;
> > +			if (raid5_add_disk(mddev, rdev) == 0) {
> > +				set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags);
> > +				added_devices++;
> > +			}
> >  		}
> >  
> >  	/* When a reshape changes the number of devices, ->degraded
> 
> This should not be needed.
> When a device is manually added, the desired slot number is written to  
>    ..../md/dev-XXX/slot
> 
> This calls slot_store (in md.c) which call mddev->pers->hot_add_disk which
> for raid5 is raid5_add_disk.
> So you shouldn't need to call raid5_add_disk again.
> 

ahhh... I see.  raid5_add_disk doesn't do the right thing in that case.  It
actually indexes beyond the end of an array, which is bad.

We possibly do need the raid5_add_disk where you had put it.  I'll have a
think and see what is best.

Thanks,

NeilBrown

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