From: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 26 May 2006 02:32:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Never remove device nodes of active devices.
X-Git-Tag: mdadm-2.5~5
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e2642f2c530369ff4f905932860681a48ca4d22;p=thirdparty%2Fmdadm.git

Never remove device nodes of active devices.

This is just too risky.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/mdopen.c b/mdopen.c
index 5cca1792..d76ebf9c 100644
--- a/mdopen.c
+++ b/mdopen.c
@@ -166,8 +166,10 @@ int open_mddev(char *dev, int autof)
 			}
 			if (ioctl(mdfd, GET_ARRAY_INFO, &array)==0) {
 				/* already active */
-				must_remove = 1;
 				close(mdfd);
+				fprintf(sterr, Name ": %s is alreadyt active.\n",
+					dev);
+				return -1;
 			} else {
 				if (major != MD_MAJOR && parts > 0)
 					make_parts(dev, parts);