From 6596e997745c4b434b688e9d4c6f737648efd981 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shaohua Li Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 18:36:36 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] MD: fix invalid stored role for a disk [ 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 Tested-by: Gioh Kim Acked-by: Guoqing Jiang Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/md.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c index 8668793262d0..85459c17cc60 100644 --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -1776,6 +1776,10 @@ static int super_1_validate(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev) } else set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags); rdev->raid_disk = role; + if (role >= mddev->raid_disks) { + rdev->saved_raid_disk = -1; + rdev->raid_disk = -1; + } break; } if (sb->devflags & WriteMostly1) -- 2.17.1