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

From: chencheng

Date: Tue Feb 10 2026 - 02:17:35 EST


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.

Signed-off-by: chencheng <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));
return;
}

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2.51.0