Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753093AbaFEFF5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 01:05:57 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:43823 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752417AbaFEEU0 (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jun 2014 00:20:26 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, NeilBrown Subject: [PATCH 3.4 050/214] md: avoid possible spinning md thread at shutdown. Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 21:16:53 -0700 Message-Id: <20140605041646.173014243@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.0.0 In-Reply-To: <20140605041639.638675216@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140605041639.638675216@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown commit 0f62fb220aa4ebabe8547d3a9ce4a16d3c045f21 upstream. If an md array with externally managed metadata (e.g. DDF or IMSM) is in use, then we should not set safemode==2 at shutdown because: 1/ this is ineffective: user-space need to be involved in any 'safemode' handling, 2/ The safemode management code doesn't cope with safemode==2 on external metadata and md_check_recover enters an infinite loop. Even at shutdown, an infinite-looping process can be problematic, so this could cause shutdown to hang. Signed-off-by: NeilBrown Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/md/md.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -8167,7 +8167,8 @@ static int md_notify_reboot(struct notif if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) { if (mddev->pers) __md_stop_writes(mddev); - mddev->safemode = 2; + if (mddev->persistent) + mddev->safemode = 2; mddev_unlock(mddev); } need_delay = 1; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/