3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>

commit 45eaf45dfa4850df16bc2e8e7903d89021137f40 upstream.

md_check_recovery will skip any recovery and also clear
MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED if MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN is set.
So when we clear _FROZEN, we must set _NEEDED and ensure that
md_check_recovery gets run.
Otherwise we could miss out on something that is needed.

In particular, this can make it impossible to remove a
failed device from an array is the  'recovery-needed' processing
didn't happen.
Suitable for stable kernels since 3.13.

Reported-and-tested-by: Joe Lawrence <joe.lawre...@stratus.com>
Fixes: 30b8feb730f9b9b3c5de02580897da03f59b6b16
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <ne...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/md/md.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5333,6 +5333,7 @@ static int md_set_readonly(struct mddev
                printk("md: %s still in use.\n",mdname(mddev));
                if (did_freeze) {
                        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
+                       set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
                        md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
                }
                err = -EBUSY;
@@ -5347,6 +5348,8 @@ static int md_set_readonly(struct mddev
                mddev->ro = 1;
                set_disk_ro(mddev->gendisk, 1);
                clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
+               set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
+               md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
                sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(mddev->sysfs_state);
                err = 0;
        }
@@ -5390,6 +5393,7 @@ static int do_md_stop(struct mddev * mdd
                mutex_unlock(&mddev->open_mutex);
                if (did_freeze) {
                        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_FROZEN, &mddev->recovery);
+                       set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
                        md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread);
                }
                return -EBUSY;


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