4.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> commit afc1f55ca44e257f69da8f43e0714a76686ae8d1 upstream. ->safemode should be triggered by mdadm for external metadaa array, otherwise array's state confuses mdadm. Fixes: 33182d15c6bf(md: always clear ->safemode when md_check_recovery gets the mddev lock.) Cc: NeilBrown <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/md/md.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/md/md.c +++ b/drivers/md/md.c @@ -8639,7 +8639,7 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mdd if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) { int spares = 0; - if (mddev->safemode == 1) + if (!mddev->external && mddev->safemode == 1) mddev->safemode = 0; if (mddev->ro) {
