linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.2 091/110] Revert "md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array."

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Date:	Fri,  6 Nov 2015 11:19:38 -0800
From:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org, NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.2 091/110] Revert "md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array."

4.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>

commit d01552a76d71f9879af448e9142389ee9be6e95b upstream.

This reverts commit 7eb418851f3278de67126ea0c427641ab4792c57.

This commit is poorly justified, I can find not discusison in email,
and it clearly causes a problem.

If a device which is being recovered fails and is subsequently
re-added to an array, there could easily have been changes to the
array *before* the point where the recovery was up to.  So the
recovery must start again from the beginning.

If a spare is being recovered and fails, then when it is re-added we
really should do a bitmap-based recovery up to the recovery-offset,
and then a full recovery from there.  Before this reversion, we only
did the "full recovery from there" which is not corect.  After this
reversion with will do a full recovery from the start, which is safer
but not ideal.

It will be left to a future patch to arrange the two different styles
of recovery.

Reported-and-tested-by: Nate Dailey <nate.dailey@...atus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
Fixes: 7eb418851f32 ("md: allow a partially recovered device to be hot-added to an array.")
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/md.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -8030,8 +8030,7 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(struct
 		       !test_bit(Bitmap_sync, &rdev->flags)))
 			continue;

-		if (rdev->saved_raid_disk < 0)
-			rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
+		rdev->recovery_offset = 0;
 		if (mddev->pers->
 		    hot_add_disk(mddev, rdev) == 0) {
 			if (sysfs_link_rdev(mddev, rdev))

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