Re: [PATCH] md: suppress spurious superblock update warning for dm-raid

From: Paul Menzel

Date: Tue Feb 10 2026 - 02:51:09 EST


Dear Chen,


Thank you for your patch.

Am 10.02.26 um 13:41 schrieb chencheng:
dm-raid have external metadata management (mddev->external = 1) and
no persistent superblock (mddev->persistent = 0). For these arrays,
there's no superblock to update, so the warning is spurious.

Please paste the warning.

Please also add a Fixes: tag.

Signed-off-by: chencheng <chencheng@xxxxxxxxx>

Would Chen Cheng be the official (transcribed) spelling of your name. If you yes, it’d be great, if you updated it:

git config --global user.name "Chen Cheng"
git commit --amend -s --author="Chen Cheng <chencheng@xxxxxxxxx>"

---
drivers/md/md.c | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 6d73f6e196a..e30b658641e 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -2790,7 +2790,9 @@ void md_update_sb(struct mddev *mddev, int force_change)
if (!md_is_rdwr(mddev)) {
if (force_change)
set_bit(MD_SB_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->sb_flags);
- pr_err("%s: can't update sb for read-only array %s\n", __func__, mdname(mddev));
+ if (!mddev_is_dm(mddev))
+ pr_err_ratelimited("%s: can't update sb for read-only array %s\n",
+ __func__, mdname(mddev));

(It looks like it’s an error level message and not a warning level message.)

return;
}

With the commit message suggestions addressed, feel free to add:

Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>


Kind regards,

Paul