If device-mapper creates a RAID1 array that includes devices to be rebuilt, it will deref a NULL pointer when finished because sysfs is not used by device-mapper instantiated RAID devices. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Brassow <jbrassow@xxxxxxxxxx> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/md/raid1.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -1027,7 +1027,7 @@ static int raid1_spare_active(mddev_t *m && !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags) && !test_and_set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) { count++; - sysfs_notify_dirent(rdev->sysfs_state); + sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(rdev->sysfs_state); } } spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags); -- 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