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-rw-r--r--drivers/md/raid5.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 66cd47973398..96c690279fc6 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -5526,8 +5526,13 @@ static int raid5_start_reshape(mddev_t *mddev)
/* Add some new drives, as many as will fit.
* We know there are enough to make the newly sized array work.
+ * Don't add devices if we are reducing the number of
+ * devices in the array. This is because it is not possible
+ * to correctly record the "partially reconstructed" state of
+ * such devices during the reshape and confusion could result.
*/
- list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set)
+ if (mddev->delta_disks >= 0)
+ list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set)
if (rdev->raid_disk < 0 &&
!test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags)) {
if (raid5_add_disk(mddev, rdev) == 0) {
@@ -5549,7 +5554,7 @@ static int raid5_start_reshape(mddev_t *mddev)
}
/* When a reshape changes the number of devices, ->degraded
- * is measured against the large of the pre and post number of
+ * is measured against the larger of the pre and post number of
* devices.*/
if (mddev->delta_disks > 0) {
spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);