From: Neil Brown Don't setup make_request_fn for md array until *after* it has been start. Also revert to md_fail_request before stopping an array. The ->stop method can never fail, so there is not point checking it. 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c | 15 ++++++--------- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/md/md.c~md-make_request-crash-fix drivers/md/md.c --- 25/drivers/md/md.c~md-make_request-crash-fix Fri Sep 12 12:41:56 2003 +++ 25-akpm/drivers/md/md.c Fri Sep 12 12:41:56 2003 @@ -1607,9 +1607,6 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) mddev->pers = pers[pnum]; spin_unlock(&pers_lock); - blk_queue_make_request(mddev->queue, mddev->pers->make_request); - mddev->queue->queuedata = mddev; - err = mddev->pers->run(mddev); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "md: pers->run() failed ...\n"); @@ -1627,6 +1624,10 @@ static int do_md_run(mddev_t * mddev) set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery); md_wakeup_thread(mddev->thread); set_capacity(disk, mddev->array_size<<1); + + blk_queue_make_request(mddev->queue, mddev->pers->make_request); + mddev->queue->queuedata = mddev; + return 0; } @@ -1698,12 +1699,8 @@ static int do_md_stop(mddev_t * mddev, i } else { if (mddev->ro) set_disk_ro(disk, 0); - if (mddev->pers->stop(mddev)) { - err = -EBUSY; - if (mddev->ro) - set_disk_ro(disk, 1); - goto out; - } + blk_queue_make_request(mddev->queue, md_fail_request); + mddev->pers->stop(mddev); module_put(mddev->pers->owner); mddev->pers = NULL; if (mddev->ro) _