The patch titled
     md: avoid a possibility that a read error can wrongly propagate through 
md/raid1 to a filesystem.
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     
md-avoid-a-possibility-that-a-read-error-can-wrongly-propagate-through-md-raid1-to-a-filesystem.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: md: avoid a possibility that a read error can wrongly propagate 
through md/raid1 to a filesystem.
From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

When a raid1 has only one working drive, we want read error to propagate up
to the filesystem as there is no point failing the last drive in an array.

Currently the code perform this check is racy.  If a write and a read a
both submitted to a device on a 2-drive raid1, and the write fails followed
by the read failing, the read will see that there is only one working drive
and will pass the failure up, even though the one working drive is actually
the *other* one.

So, tighten up the locking.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/md/raid1.c |   33 +++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
drivers/md/raid1.c~md-avoid-a-possibility-that-a-read-error-can-wrongly-propagate-through-md-raid1-to-a-filesystem
 drivers/md/raid1.c
--- 
a/drivers/md/raid1.c~md-avoid-a-possibility-that-a-read-error-can-wrongly-propagate-through-md-raid1-to-a-filesystem
+++ a/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -271,21 +271,25 @@ static int raid1_end_read_request(struct
         */
        update_head_pos(mirror, r1_bio);
 
-       if (uptodate || (conf->raid_disks - conf->mddev->degraded) <= 1) {
-               /*
-                * Set R1BIO_Uptodate in our master bio, so that
-                * we will return a good error code for to the higher
-                * levels even if IO on some other mirrored buffer fails.
-                *
-                * The 'master' represents the composite IO operation to
-                * user-side. So if something waits for IO, then it will
-                * wait for the 'master' bio.
+       if (uptodate)
+               set_bit(R1BIO_Uptodate, &r1_bio->state);
+       else {
+               /* If all other devices have failed, we want to return
+                * the error upwards rather than fail the last device.
+                * Here we redefine "uptodate" to mean "Don't want to retry"
                 */
-               if (uptodate)
-                       set_bit(R1BIO_Uptodate, &r1_bio->state);
+               unsigned long flags;
+               spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
+               if (r1_bio->mddev->degraded == conf->raid_disks ||
+                   (r1_bio->mddev->degraded == conf->raid_disks-1 &&
+                    !test_bit(Faulty, &conf->mirrors[mirror].rdev->flags)))
+                       uptodate = 1;
+               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
+       }
 
+       if (uptodate)
                raid_end_bio_io(r1_bio);
-       } else {
+       else {
                /*
                 * oops, read error:
                 */
@@ -992,13 +996,14 @@ static void error(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_rd
                unsigned long flags;
                spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
                mddev->degraded++;
+               set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
                /*
                 * if recovery is running, make sure it aborts.
                 */
                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_ERR, &mddev->recovery);
-       }
-       set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
+       } else
+               set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
        set_bit(MD_CHANGE_DEVS, &mddev->flags);
        printk(KERN_ALERT "raid1: Disk failure on %s, disabling device. \n"
                "       Operation continuing on %d devices\n",
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

origin.patch
md-improve-the-is_mddev_idle-test.patch
git-md-accel.patch
nlmclnt_recovery-dont-use-clone_sighand.patch
use-menuconfig-objects-ii-md.patch
md-dm-reduce-stack-usage-with-stacked-block-devices.patch

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