Hi Jens, Please consider pulling the following changes on top of your for-5.13/drivers branch. The major changes are 1. mddev_find_or_alloc() clean up, from Christoph. 2. Fix NULL pointer deref with external bitmap, from Sudhakar. Thanks, Song The following changes since commit f8ee34a929a4adf6d29a7ef2145393e6865037ad: lightnvm: deprecated OCSSD support and schedule it for removal in Linux 5.15 (2021-04-13 09:16:12 -0600) are available in the Git repository at: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/song/md.git md-next for you to fetch changes up to 404a8ef512587b2460107d3272c17a89aef75edf: md/bitmap: wait for external bitmap writes to complete during tear down (2021-04-15 11:06:32 -0700) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christoph Hellwig (3): md: factor out a mddev_alloc_unit helper from mddev_find md: refactor mddev_find_or_alloc md: do not return existing mddevs from mddev_find_or_alloc Sudhakar Panneerselvam (1): md/bitmap: wait for external bitmap writes to complete during tear down drivers/md/md-bitmap.c | 2 ++ drivers/md/md.c | 139 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 72 deletions(-)