md: don't return -EAGAIN in md_allow_write for external metadata arrays
This essentially reverts commit b5470dc5 ("md: resolve external metadata handling deadlock in md_allow_write") with some adjustments. Since commit 6791875e ("md: make reconfig_mutex optional for writes to md sysfs files.") changing array_state to 'active' does not use mddev_lock() and will not cause a deadlock with md_allow_write(). This revert simplifies userspace tools that write to sysfs attributes like "stripe_cache_size" or "consistency_policy" because it removes the need for special handling for external metadata arrays, checking for EAGAIN and retrying the write. Signed-off-by: Artur Paszkiewicz <artur.paszkiewicz@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
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