From: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Commit 2910ff17d154baa5eb50e362a91104e831eb2bb6 introduced a regression which would remove a recently added spare via slot_store. Revert part of the patch which touches slot_store() and add the disk directly using pers->hot_add_disk() Signed-off-by: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pawel Baldysiak <pawel.baldysiak@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 13 ++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index a71b36f..0444afa 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -2726,6 +2726,7 @@ slot_store(struct md_rdev *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len) /* Activating a spare .. or possibly reactivating * if we ever get bitmaps working here. */ + int err; if (rdev->raid_disk != -1) return -EBUSY; @@ -2747,9 +2748,15 @@ slot_store(struct md_rdev *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len) rdev->saved_raid_disk = -1; clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags); clear_bit(Bitmap_sync, &rdev->flags); - remove_and_add_spares(rdev->mddev, rdev); - if (rdev->raid_disk == -1) - return -EBUSY; + err = rdev->mddev->pers-> + hot_add_disk(rdev->mddev, rdev); + if (err) { + rdev->raid_disk = -1; + return err; + } else + sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(rdev->sysfs_state); + if (sysfs_link_rdev(rdev->mddev, rdev)) + /* failure here is OK */; /* don't wakeup anyone, leave that to userspace. */ } else { if (slot >= rdev->mddev->raid_disks && -- 2.6.2 -- 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