[PATCH 3.4 050/214] md: avoid possible spinning md thread at shutdown.

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>

commit 0f62fb220aa4ebabe8547d3a9ce4a16d3c045f21 upstream.

If an md array with externally managed metadata (e.g. DDF or IMSM)
is in use, then we should not set safemode==2 at shutdown because:

1/ this is ineffective: user-space need to be involved in any 'safemode' handling,
2/ The safemode management code doesn't cope with safemode==2 on external metadata
   and md_check_recover enters an infinite loop.

Even at shutdown, an infinite-looping process can be problematic, so this
could cause shutdown to hang.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/md/md.c |    3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -8167,7 +8167,8 @@ static int md_notify_reboot(struct notif
 		if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) {
 			if (mddev->pers)
 				__md_stop_writes(mddev);
-			mddev->safemode = 2;
+			if (mddev->persistent)
+				mddev->safemode = 2;
 			mddev_unlock(mddev);
 		}
 		need_delay = 1;


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