Re: md: bug in file raid5.c, line 540 was: Re: Linux 2.4.22-rc1

[Lars Marowsky-Bree]

On 2003-08-22T15:24:46,
   Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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*


Sincerely,
    Lars Marowsky-Brée <lmb@xxxxxxx>

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