From 6dafab6b1383e912cd252fa809570b484eb6e0dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: NeilBrown Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 12:54:22 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] md: make sure metadata is updated when spares are activated or removed. It isn't always necessary to update the metadata when spares are removed as the presence-or-not of a spare isn't really important to the integrity of an array. Also activating a spare doesn't always require updating the metadata as the update on 'recovery-completed' is usually sufficient. However the introduction of 'replacement' devices have made these transitions sometimes more important. For example the 'Replacement' flag isn't cleared until the original device is removed, so we need to ensure a metadata update after that 'spare' is removed. So set MD_CHANGE_DEVS whenever a spare is activated or removed, to complement the current situation where it is set when a spare is added or a device is failed (or a number of other less common situations). This is suitable for -stable as out-of-data metadata could lead to data corruption. This is only relevant for 3.3 and later 9when 'replacement' as introduced. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: NeilBrown --- drivers/md/md.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 3f6203a..308e87b 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -7619,6 +7619,8 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(struct mddev *mddev) } } } + if (removed) + set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags); return spares; } @@ -7632,9 +7634,11 @@ static void reap_sync_thread(struct mddev *mddev) !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED, &mddev->recovery)) { /* success...*/ /* activate any spares */ - if (mddev->pers->spare_active(mddev)) + if (mddev->pers->spare_active(mddev)) { sysfs_notify(&mddev->kobj, NULL, "degraded"); + set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags); + } } if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RESHAPE, &mddev->recovery) && mddev->pers->finish_reshape) -- 2.7.4