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Subject[086/107] md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.
2.6.39-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.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@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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

--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7062,6 +7062,7 @@ 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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