This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled raid10: increment write counter after bio is split 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: raid10-increment-write-counter-after-bio-is-split.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 9b622e2bbcf049c82e2550d35fb54ac205965f50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2016 10:28:25 +0200 Subject: raid10: increment write counter after bio is split From: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@xxxxxxxxx> commit 9b622e2bbcf049c82e2550d35fb54ac205965f50 upstream. md pending write counter must be incremented after bio is split, otherwise it gets decremented too many times in end bio callback and becomes negative. Signed-off-by: Tomasz Majchrzak <tomasz.majchrzak@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/md/raid10.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/raid10.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c @@ -1072,6 +1072,8 @@ static void __make_request(struct mddev int max_sectors; int sectors; + md_write_start(mddev, bio); + /* * Register the new request and wait if the reconstruction * thread has put up a bar for new requests. @@ -1455,8 +1457,6 @@ static void make_request(struct mddev *m return; } - md_write_start(mddev, bio); - do { /* Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tomasz.majchrzak@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/raid10-increment-write-counter-after-bio-is-split.patch