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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/md/bitmap.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c index 2bc56e2a3526..135a0907e9de 100644 --- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c +++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c @@ -177,11 +177,16 @@ static struct md_rdev *next_active_rdev(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct mddev *mdde * nr_pending is 0 and In_sync is clear, the entries we return will * still be in the same position on the list when we re-enter * list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu. + * + * Note that if entered with 'rdev == NULL' to start at the + * beginning, we temporarily assign 'rdev' to an address which + * isn't really an rdev, but which can be used by + * list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to find the first entry. */ rcu_read_lock(); if (rdev == NULL) /* start at the beginning */ - rdev = list_entry_rcu(&mddev->disks, struct md_rdev, same_set); + rdev = list_entry(&mddev->disks, struct md_rdev, same_set); else { /* release the previous rdev and start from there. */ rdev_dec_pending(rdev, mddev); |