md: avoid possible spinning md thread at shutdown.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Mon, 5 May 2014 23:36:08 +0000 (09:36 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 7 Jun 2014 20:25:32 +0000 (13:25 -0700)
commit658864cc2cc40d228ff0a75457fcbb4dedb1a52e
treed9bd4bcc85d4e63c6700b1341e1879642bd5cb16
parent1c0301d184e2ea36aa82917c9c43ea1c3f547a02
md: avoid possible spinning md thread at shutdown.

commit 0f62fb220aa4ebabe8547d3a9ce4a16d3c045f21 upstream.

If an md array with externally managed metadata (e.g. DDF or IMSM)
is in use, then we should not set safemode==2 at shutdown because:

1/ this is ineffective: user-space need to be involved in any 'safemode' handling,
2/ The safemode management code doesn't cope with safemode==2 on external metadata
   and md_check_recover enters an infinite loop.

Even at shutdown, an infinite-looping process can be problematic, so this
could cause shutdown to hang.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/md/md.c