The new_disk_ack could return failure if WAITING_FOR_NEWDISK is not set, so we need to kick the dev from array in case failure happened. And we missed to check err before call new_disk_ack othwise we could kick a rdev which isn't in array, thanks for the reminder from Shaohua. Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 2c3ab6f..d6ae9bc 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -6101,9 +6101,13 @@ static int add_new_disk(struct mddev *mddev, mdu_disk_info_t *info) export_rdev(rdev); if (mddev_is_clustered(mddev)) { - if (info->state & (1 << MD_DISK_CANDIDATE)) - md_cluster_ops->new_disk_ack(mddev, (err == 0)); - else { + if (info->state & (1 << MD_DISK_CANDIDATE)) { + if (!err) { + err = md_cluster_ops->new_disk_ack(mddev, (err == 0)); + if (err) + md_kick_rdev_from_array(rdev); + } + } else { if (err) md_cluster_ops->add_new_disk_cancel(mddev); else -- 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