Re: mdadm -Db switches array to write-pending?!

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Hi Neil,

On 07/17/2013 10:19 PM, Martin Wilck wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 07:18 AM, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
>> Probably the  best thing to do is:
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
>> index d059af5..b19a1c8 100644
>> --- a/drivers/md/md.c
>> +++ b/drivers/md/md.c
>> @@ -5629,10 +5629,7 @@ static int get_bitmap_file(struct mddev * mddev, void __user * arg)
>>  	char *ptr, *buf = NULL;
>>  	int err = -ENOMEM;
>>  
>> -	if (md_allow_write(mddev))
>> -		file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO);
>> -	else
>> -		file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_KERNEL);
>> +	file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO);
>>  
>>  	if (!file)
>>  		goto out;
>>
>>
>> A failure here is not likely and not catastrophic.
>>
>> Does it fix the situation for you?
> 
> Yes it does.
> Martin
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Any particular reason why you haven't applied this patch in your git
tree http://git.neil.brown.name/?p=md.git;a=summary yet?

Martin

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