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NeilBrown 0f62fb220a md: avoid possible spinning md thread at shutdown.

If an md array with externally managed metadata (e.g. DDF or IMSM)
is in use, then we should not set safemode==2 at shutdown because:

1/ this is ineffective: user-space need to be involved in any 'safemode' handling,
2/ The safemode management code doesn't cope with safemode==2 on external metadata
   and md_check_recover enters an infinite loop.

Even at shutdown, an infinite-looping process can be problematic, so this
could cause shutdown to hang.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (any kernel)
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

2014-05-06 09:49:31 +10:00