linux-kernel - [PATCH] [80/99] md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.

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Date:	Wed, 27 Jul 2011 14:49:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To:	neilb@...e.de, gregkh@...e.de, ak@...ux.intel.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org,
	tim.bird@...sony.com
Subject: [PATCH] [80/99] md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.

2.6.35-longterm review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------
From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>

commit 4274215d24633df7302069e51426659d4759c5ed upstream.

If a device fails in a way that causes pending request to take a while
to complete, md will not be able to immediately remove it from the
array in remove_and_add_spares.
It will then incorrectly look like a spare device and md will try to
recover it even though it is failed.
This leads to a recovery process starting and instantly aborting over
and over again.

We should check if the device is faulty before considering it to be a
spare.  This will avoid trying to start a recovery that cannot
proceed.

This bug was introduced in 2.6.26 so that patch is suitable for any
kernel since then.

Reported-by: Jim Paradis <james.paradis@...atus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>

---
 drivers/md/md.c |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Index: linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/md/md.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.35.y.orig/drivers/md/md.c
+++ linux-2.6.35.y/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -6967,6 +6967,7 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(mddev_t
 		list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set) {
 			if (rdev->raid_disk >= 0 &&
 			    !test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) &&
+			    !test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags) &&
 			    !test_bit(Blocked, &rdev->flags))
 				spares++;
 			if (rdev->raid_disk < 0
--
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