This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Revert "md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array."
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
revert-md-allow-a-partially-recovered-device-to-be-hot-added-to-an-array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From d01552a76d71f9879af448e9142389ee9be6e95b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2015 11:00:56 +1100
Subject: Revert "md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array."
From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
commit d01552a76d71f9879af448e9142389ee9be6e95b upstream.
This reverts commit 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57.
This commit is poorly justified, I can find not discusison in email,
and it clearly causes a problem.
If a device which is being recovered fails and is subsequently
re-added to an array, there could easily have been changes to the
array *before* the point where the recovery was up to. So the
recovery must start again from the beginning.
If a spare is being recovered and fails, then when it is re-added we
really should do a bitmap-based recovery up to the recovery-offset,
and then a full recovery from there. Before this reversion, we only
did the "full recovery from there" which is not corect. After this
reversion with will do a full recovery from the start, which is safer
but not ideal.
It will be left to a future patch to arrange the two different styles
of recovery.
Reported-and-tested-by: Nate Dailey <nate.dailey@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 7eb418851f32 ("md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/md/md.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7775,8 +7775,7 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(struct
!test_bit(Bitmap_sync, &rdev->flags)))
continue;
- if (rdev->saved_raid_disk < 0)
- rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
+ rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
if (mddev->pers->
hot_add_disk(mddev, rdev) == 0) {
if (sysfs_link_rdev(mddev, rdev))
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from neilb@xxxxxxxx are
queue-3.14/revert-md-allow-a-partially-recovered-device-to-be-hot-added-to-an-array.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid1-submit_bio_wait-returns-0-on-success.patch
queue-3.14/md-raid10-submit_bio_wait-returns-0-on-success.patch
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