In d5d885fd(md: introduce new personality funciton start()) it splits the init job to two parts. The first part run() does the jobs that do not require the md threads. The second part start() does the jobs that require the md threads. Now it just does run() in adding new journal device. It needs to do the second part start() too. Fixes: f6b6ec5cfac(raid5-cache: add journal hot add/remove support) Reported-by: Michal Soltys <soltys@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid5.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c index 7fde645..0e52f1d 100644 --- a/drivers/md/raid5.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c @@ -7680,7 +7680,7 @@ static int raid5_remove_disk(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev) static int raid5_add_disk(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev) { struct r5conf *conf = mddev->private; - int err = -EEXIST; + int ret, err = -EEXIST; int disk; struct disk_info *p; int first = 0; @@ -7695,7 +7695,14 @@ static int raid5_add_disk(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev) * The array is in readonly mode if journal is missing, so no * write requests running. We should be safe */ - log_init(conf, rdev, false); + ret = log_init(conf, rdev, false); + if (ret) + return ret; + + ret = r5l_start(conf->log); + if (ret) + return ret; + return 0; } if (mddev->recovery_disabled == conf->recovery_disabled) -- 2.7.5