This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md-cluster: make md-cluster also can work when compiled into kernel to the 4.7-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: md-cluster-make-md-cluster-also-can-work-when-compiled-into-kernel.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.7 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 47a7b0d8888c04c9746812820b6e60553cc77bbc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2016 22:17:28 -0400 Subject: md-cluster: make md-cluster also can work when compiled into kernel From: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> commit 47a7b0d8888c04c9746812820b6e60553cc77bbc upstream. The md-cluster is compiled as module by default, if it is compiled by built-in way, then we can't make md-cluster works. [64782.630008] md/raid1:md127: active with 2 out of 2 mirrors [64782.630528] md-cluster module not found. [64782.630530] md127: Could not setup cluster service (-2) Fixes: edb39c9 ("Introduce md_cluster_operations to handle cluster functions") Reported-by: Marc Smith <marc.smith@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 12 ++++-------- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -7599,16 +7599,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_md_cluster_oper int md_setup_cluster(struct mddev *mddev, int nodes) { - int err; - - err = request_module("md-cluster"); - if (err) { - pr_err("md-cluster module not found.\n"); - return -ENOENT; - } - + if (!md_cluster_ops) + request_module("md-cluster"); spin_lock(&pers_lock); + /* ensure module won't be unloaded */ if (!md_cluster_ops || !try_module_get(md_cluster_mod)) { + pr_err("can't find md-cluster module or get it's reference.\n"); spin_unlock(&pers_lock); return -ENOENT; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from gqjiang@xxxxxxxx are queue-4.7/md-cluster-make-md-cluster-also-can-work-when-compiled-into-kernel.patch -- 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