Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 14:26:59 -0700
From: Mike Fedyk <mfedyk@matchmail.com>
To: Lars Marowsky-Bree <lmb@suse.de>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>,
       Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: md: bug in file raid5.c, line 540 was: Re: Linux 2.4.22-rc1
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On Fri, Aug 22, 2003 at 05:50:39PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2003-08-22T15:24:46,
>    Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> said:
> 
> > This bug could happen if you try to fail a device that is not active.
> 
> Yes, thats not generally a tested code path in 2.4. On removing the
> BUG() statement, also check that all counters get in/decremented
> correctly, or the next lurking bug will hit you.
> 
> I fixed that for multipath in 2.4 too, but I can't get around to clean
> up the patchset *sigh*

Then send the patch to someone who can...

Has anyone attempted to create a testbed for md?  If not, can you list all
of the states, and state transitions that are legal.  I might be able to
cook something up when I get some time.
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