From: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mtkaczyk@kernel.org, ncroxon@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] mdadm/Incremental: wait a while before removing a member
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2025 16:30:29 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20251017083029.53138-1-xni@redhat.com> (raw)
We encountered a regression that member disk can't be removed in
incremental remove mode:
mdadm -If /dev/loop0
mdadm: Cannot remove member device loop0 from md127
It doesn't allow to remove a member if sync thread is running. mdadm -If
sets member disk faulty first, then it removes the disk. If sync thread
is running, it will be interrupted by setting a member faulty. But the sync
thread hasn't been reapped. So it needs to wait a while to let kernel to
reap sync thread.
Signed-off-by: Xiao Ni <xni@redhat.com>
---
Incremental.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Incremental.c b/Incremental.c
index ba3810e6157f..d04168121199 100644
--- a/Incremental.c
+++ b/Incremental.c
@@ -1793,6 +1793,12 @@ int Incremental_remove(char *devname, char *id_path, int verbose)
if (rv && verbose >= 0)
pr_err("Cannot fail member device %s in array %s.\n", devnm, ent->devnm);
+ /*
+ * If resync/recovery is running, sync thread is interrupted by setting member faulty.
+ * And it needs to wait sometime to let kernel to reap sync thread. If not, it will
+ * fail to remove it.
+ */
+ sleep_for(5, 0, true);
if (rv == MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS)
rv = sysfs_set_memb_state(ent->devnm, devnm, MEMB_STATE_REMOVE);
--
2.32.0 (Apple Git-132)
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