md/raid5: Fix livelock when array is both resyncing and degraded.
Commit a7854487: md: When RAID5 is dirty, force reconstruct-write instead of read-modify-write. Causes an RCW cycle to be forced even when the array is degraded. A degraded array cannot support RCW as that requires reading all data blocks, and one may be missing. Forcing an RCW when it is not possible causes a live-lock and the code spins, repeatedly deciding to do something that cannot succeed. So change the condition to only force RCW on non-degraded arrays. Reported-by: Manibalan P <pmanibalan@amiindia.co.in> Bisected-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de> Fixes: a7854487 Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org (v3.7+)
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