tree 9d7ddfe9d4632c8d6cacb6c4dd7b9cb49f837432
parent 110518bccf076726cc93bf604527d8019aae50ba
author NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> 1241664657 +1000
committer NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> 1241664657 +1000

md: remove ability to explicit set an inactive array to 'clean'.

Being able to write 'clean' to an 'array_state' of an inactive array
to activate it in 'clean' mode is both unnecessary and inconvenient.

It is unnecessary because the same can be achieved by writing
'active'.  This activates and array, but it still remains 'clean'
until the first write.

It is inconvenient because writing 'clean' is more often used to
cause an 'active' array to revert to 'clean' mode (thus blocking
any writes until a 'write-pending' is promoted to 'active').

Allowing 'clean' to both activate an array and mark an active array as
clean can lead to races:  One program writes 'clean' to mark the
active array as clean at the same time as another program writes
'inactive' to deactivate (stop) and active array.  Depending on which
writes first, the array could be deactivated and immediately
reactivated which isn't what was desired.

So just disable the use of 'clean' to activate an array.

This avoids a race that can be triggered with mdadm-3.0 and external
metadata, so it suitable for -stable.

Reported-by: Rafal Marszewski <rafal.marszewski@intel.com>
Acked-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>