This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled md: MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED is set for mddev->recovery to the 4.4-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-md_recovery_needed-is-set-for-mddev-recovery.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 82a301cb0ea2df8a5c88213094a01660067c7fb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2016 15:48:18 -0800 Subject: md: MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED is set for mddev->recovery From: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> commit 82a301cb0ea2df8a5c88213094a01660067c7fb4 upstream. Fixes: 90f5f7ad4f38("md: Wait for md_check_recovery before attempting device removal.") Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -6771,7 +6771,7 @@ static int md_ioctl(struct block_device /* need to ensure recovery thread has run */ wait_event_interruptible_timeout(mddev->sb_wait, !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, - &mddev->flags), + &mddev->recovery), msecs_to_jiffies(5000)); if (cmd == STOP_ARRAY || cmd == STOP_ARRAY_RO) { /* Need to flush page cache, and ensure no-one else opens Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from shli@xxxxxx are queue-4.4/md-md_recovery_needed-is-set-for-mddev-recovery.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