From 0bc4091108e8f2e65faef3082e5261f2c35cd2b4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:36:08 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/md.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 4ad5cc4..51c431c 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -8530,7 +8530,8 @@ static int md_notify_reboot(struct notifier_block *this, if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) { if (mddev->pers) __md_stop_writes(mddev); - mddev->safemode = 2; + if (mddev->persistent) + mddev->safemode = 2; mddev_unlock(mddev); } need_delay = 1; -- 2.7.4