3.14-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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)) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html