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)
committerNeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Tue, 28 Jun 2011 06:59:42 +0000 (16:59 +1000)
commit4274215d24633df7302069e51426659d4759c5ed
treec21fff5f11201eaaea0e44cf81a38df21dd63ffd
parent2992c4bd5742b31a0ee00a76eee9c1c284507418
md: avoid endless recovery loop when waiting for fail device to complete.

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.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Reported-by: Jim Paradis <james.paradis@stratus.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
drivers/md/md.c