always fails This patch, recently added to md-next causes the test to always fail: 7e6ba434cc60 ("md: don't unregister sync_thread with reconfig_mutex held") The new error is simply: ERROR: no reshape happening Before the patch, the error seen is below. -- fails infrequently Fails roughly 1 in 4 runs with errors: mdadm: Merging with already-assembled /dev/md/0 mdadm: cannot re-read metadata from /dev/loop6 - aborting ERROR: no reshape happening Also have seen a random deadlock: INFO: task mdadm:109702 blocked for more than 30 seconds. Not tainted 5.18.0-rc3-eid-vmlocalyes-dbg-00095-g3c2b5427979d #2040 "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. task:mdadm state:D stack: 0 pid:109702 ppid: 1 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: __schedule+0x67e/0x13b0 schedule+0x82/0x110 mddev_suspend+0x2e1/0x330 suspend_lo_store+0xbd/0x140 md_attr_store+0xcb/0x130 sysfs_kf_write+0x89/0xb0 kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x202/0x2c0 new_sync_write+0x222/0x330 vfs_write+0x3bc/0x4d0 ksys_write+0xd9/0x180 __x64_sys_write+0x43/0x50 do_syscall_64+0x3b/0x90 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x44/0xae