Patch "MD: not clear ->safemode for external metadata array" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    MD: not clear ->safemode for external metadata array

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
md-not-clear-safemode-for-external-metadata-array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 20:34:45 -0700
Subject: MD: not clear ->safemode for external metadata array

From: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>

commit afc1f55ca44e257f69da8f43e0714a76686ae8d1 upstream.

->safemode should be triggered by mdadm for external metadaa array, otherwise array's state confuses mdadm.

---
 drivers/md/md.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

@@ -8639,7 +8639,7 @@ void md_check_recovery(struct mddev *mdd
 	if (mddev_trylock(mddev)) {
 		int spares = 0;
 
-		if (mddev->safemode == 1)
+		if (!mddev->external && mddev->safemode == 1)
 			mddev->safemode = 0;
 
 		if (mddev->ro) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.12/md-not-clear-safemode-for-external-metadata-array.patch queue-4.12/md-always-clear-safemode-when-md_check_recovery-gets-the-mddev-lock.patch queue-4.12/md-fix-test-in-md_write_start.patch