linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 118/146] MD: fix invalid stored role for a disk

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Message-ID: <20181106155012.GC151445@sasha-vm>
Date:   Tue, 6 Nov 2018 10:50:12 -0500
From:   Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To:     Jack Wang <jack.wang.usish@...il.com>
Cc:     stable@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, shli@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 4.19 118/146] MD: fix invalid stored role for a
 disk

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:37:32AM +0100, Jack Wang wrote:
>Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org> 于2018年11月1日周四 上午12:45写道：
>>
>> From: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
>>
>> [ Upstream commit d595567dc4f0c1d90685ec1e2e296e2cad2643ac ]
>>
>> If we change the number of array's device after device is removed from array,
>> then add the device back to array, we can see that device is added as active
>> role instead of spare which we expected.
>>
>> Please see the below link for details:
>> https://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=153736982015076&w=2
>>
>> This is caused by that we prefer to use device's previous role which is
>> recorded by saved_raid_disk, but we should respect the new number of
>> conf->raid_disks since it could be changed after device is removed.
>>
>> Reported-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@...fitbricks.com>
>> Tested-by: Gioh Kim <gi-oh.kim@...fitbricks.com>
>> Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang <gqjiang@...e.com>9e753ba9b9b405e3902d9f08aec5f2ea58a0c317
>> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@...com>
>> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
>Hi Sasha,
>
>This patch breaks linear hotadd please also include  commit
>9e753ba9b9b405e3902d9f08aec5f2ea58a0c317
>MD: fix invalid stored role for a disk - try2

I'll queue it up, thanks Jack!

--
Thanks,
Sasha