2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown commit d0e260782c3702a009645c3caa02e381dab8798b upstream. commit 4706b349f was a forward port of a fix that was needed for SLES10. But in fact it is not needed in mainline because the earlier commit dd00a99e7a fixes the same problem in a better way. Further, this commit introduces a bug in the way it interacts with the automatic read-error-correction. If, after a read error is successfully corrected, the same disk is chosen to re-read - the re-read won't be attempted but an error will be returned instead. After reverting that commit, there is the possibility that a read error on a read-only array (where read errors cannot be corrected as that requires a write) will repeatedly read the same device and continue to get an error. So in the "Array is readonly" case, fail the drive immediately on a read error. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/raid1.c | 7 ++++--- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/md/raid1.c +++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c @@ -1643,11 +1643,12 @@ static void raid1d(mddev_t *mddev) r1_bio->sector, r1_bio->sectors); unfreeze_array(conf); - } + } else + md_error(mddev, + conf->mirrors[r1_bio->read_disk].rdev); bio = r1_bio->bios[r1_bio->read_disk]; - if ((disk=read_balance(conf, r1_bio)) == -1 || - disk == r1_bio->read_disk) { + if ((disk=read_balance(conf, r1_bio)) == -1) { printk(KERN_ALERT "raid1: %s: unrecoverable I/O" " read error for block %llu\n", bdevname(bio->bi_bdev,b), -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/