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md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:59:42 +0000 (16:59 +1000)
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 1 Aug 2011 20:54:58 +0000 (13:54 -0700)
commit04bf190d9339a6cd5adef1a4b789517ff9838fdb
treea78a05c52564d10d7f99782e626e0c95c77d5547
parentc2f5b713e6efa93d5af22f6a7a807850023a608b
md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.

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>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
drivers/md/md.c