Adding upstream version 4.3+20240412.upstream/4.3+20240412

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.0 b/ANNOUNCE-3.0
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to (finally) announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.0
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-
-This is a major new version and as such should be treated with some
-caution.  However it has seen substantial testing and is considerred
-to be ready for wide use.
-
-
-The significant change which justifies the new major version number is
-that mdadm can now handle metadata updates entirely in userspace.
-This allows mdadm to support metadata formats that the kernel knows
-nothing about.
-
-Currently two such metadata formats are supported:
-  - DDF  - The SNIA standard format
-  - Intel Matrix - The metadata used by recent Intel ICH controlers.
-
-Also the approach to device names has changed significantly.
-
-If udev is installed on the system, mdadm will not create any devices
-in /dev.  Rather it allows udev to manage those devices.  For this to work
-as expected, the included udev rules file should be installed.
-
-If udev is not installed, mdadm will still create devices and symlinks 
-as required, and will also remove them when the array is stopped.
-
-mdadm now requires all devices which do not have a standard name (mdX
-or md_dX) to live in the directory /dev/md/.  Names in this directory
-will always be created as symlinks back to the standard name in /dev.
-
-The man pages contain some information about the new externally managed
-metadata.  However see below for a more condensed overview.
-
-Externally managed metadata introduces the concept of a 'container'.
-A container is a collection of (normally) physical devices which have
-a common set of metadata.  A container is assembled as an md array, but
-is left 'inactive'.
-
-A container can contain one or more data arrays.  These are composed from
-slices (partitions?) of various devices in the container.
-
-For example, a 5 devices DDF set can container a RAID1 using the first
-half of two devices, a RAID0 using the first half of the remain 3 devices,
-and a RAID5 over thte second half of all 5 devices.
-
-A container can be created with
-
-   mdadm --create /dev/md0 -e ddf -n5 /dev/sd[abcde]
-
-or "-e imsm" to use the Intel Matrix Storage Manager.
-
-An array can be created within a container either by giving the
-container name and the only member:
-
-   mdadm -C /dev/md1 --level raid1 -n 2 /dev/md0
-
-or by listing the component devices
-
-   mdadm -C /dev/md2 --level raid0 -n 3 /dev/sd[cde]
-
-To assemble a container, it is easiest just to pass each device in turn to 
-mdadm -I
-
-  for i in /dev/sd[abcde]
-  do mdadm -I $i
-  done
-
-This will assemble the container and the components.
-
-Alternately the container can be assembled explicitly
-
-   mdadm -A /dev/md0 /dev/sd[abcde]
-
-Then the components can all be assembled with
-
-   mdadm -I /dev/md0
-
-For each container, mdadm will start a program called "mdmon" which will
-monitor the array and effect any metadata updates needed.  The array is
-initially assembled readonly. It is up to "mdmon" to mark the metadata 
-as 'dirty' and which the array to 'read-write'.
-
-The version 0.90 and 1.x metadata formats supported by previous
-versions for mdadm are still supported and the kernel still performs
-the same updates it use to.  The new 'mdmon' approach is only used for
-newly introduced metadata types.
-
-NeilBrown 2nd June 2009
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.0.1 b/ANNOUNCE-3.0.1
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.0.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-
-This contains only minor bug fixes over 3.0.  If you are using
-3.0, you could consider upgrading.
-
-The brief change log is:
-   -    Fix various segfaults
-   -    Fixed for --examine with containers
-   -    Lots of other little fixes.
-
-NeilBrown 25th September 2009
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.0.2 b/ANNOUNCE-3.0.2
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.0.2
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-
-This just contains one bugfix over 3.0.1 - I was obviously a bit hasty
-in releasing that one.
-
-The brief change log is:
-   -    Fix crash when hosthost is not set, as often happens in
-	early boot.
-
-NeilBrown 25th September 2009
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.0.3 b/ANNOUNCE-3.0.3
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.0.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.0.3
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-
-This contains a collection of bug fixes and minor enhancements over
-3.0.1.
-
-The brief change log is:
-   -    Improvements for creating arrays giving just a name, like 'foo',
-	rather than the full '/dev/md/foo'.
-   -    Improvements for assembling member arrays of containers.
-   -    Improvements to test suite
-   -    Add option to change increment for RebuildNN messages reported
-	by "mdadm --monitor"
-   -    Improvements to mdmon 'hand-over' from initrd to final root.
-   -    Handle merging of devices that have left an IMSM array and are
-	being re-incorporated.
-   -    Add missing space in "--detail --brief" output.
-	
-NeilBrown 22nd October 2009
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-Hot on the heals of 3.0.3 I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-
-It contains significant feature enhancements over 3.0.x
-
-The brief change log is:
-   -    Support --grow to change the layout of RAID4/5/6
-   -    Support --grow to change the chunksize of raid 4/5/6
-   -    Support --grow to change level from RAID1 -> RAID5 -> RAID6 and
-        back.
-   -    Support --grow to reduce the number of devices in RAID4/5/6.
-   -    Support restart of these grow options which assembling an array 
-	which is partially grown.
-   -    Assorted tests of this code, and of different RAID6 layouts.
-
-Note that a 2.6.31 or later is needed to have access to these.
-Reducing devices in a RAID4/5/6 requires 2.6.32.
-Changing RAID5 to RAID1 requires 2.6.33.
-
-You should only upgrade if you need to use, or which to test, these
-features.
-	
-NeilBrown 22nd October 2009
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1.1 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.1
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.1 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.1.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-This is a bugfix release over 3.1, which was withdrawn due to serious
-bugs.  So it might be best to ignore 3.1 and say that this is a significant
-feature release over 3.0.x
-
-Significant changes are:
-  - RAID level conversion between RAID1, RAID5, and RAID6 are
-    possible were the kernel supports it (2.6.32 at least)
-  - online chunksize and layout changing for RAID5 and RAID6
-    where the kernel supports it.
-  - reduce the number of devices in a RAID4/5/6 array.
-
-  - The default metadata is not v1.1.  This metadata is stored at the
-    start of the device so is safer in many ways but could interfere with
-    boot loaded.  The old default (0.90) is still available and fully
-    supported.
-
-  - The default chunksize is now 512K rather than 64K.  This seems more
-    appropriate for modern devices.
-
-  - The default bitmap chunksize for internal bitmaps is now at least
-    64Meg as fine grained bitmaps tend to impact performance more for
-    little extra gain.
-
-This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
-upgrade to 3.1.1.
-
-NeilBrown 19th November 2009
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1.2 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.2
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.1.2
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.1.
-
-Significant changes are:
-  - The default metadata has change again (sorry about that).
-    It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way.  It turned
-    out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it 
-    unsuitable for a default, though in many cases it is still
-    suitable to use.
-  - Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still
-    active
-  - Add 'homehost' to the valid words for the "AUTO" config file
-    line.  When followed by "-all", this causes mdadm to
-    auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not
-    auto-assemble anything else.
-  - Fix some bugs with "--grow --chunksize=" for changing chunksize.
-  - VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN.
-    This gives distros more flexability in how to manage the
-    pid and sock files that mdmon needs.
-  - Various mdmon fixes
-  - Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible.
-  - If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies,
-    the previously had to be listed in the "right" order.  Now
-    any order should work.
-  - Fix --force assembly of v1.x arrays which are in the process
-    of recovering.
-  - Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page.
-  - Various command-line-option parsing improvements.
-  - ... and lots of other bug fixes.
-
-
-This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
-upgrade to 3.1.2
-
-NeilBrown 10th March 2010
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1.3 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.3
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.1.3
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.2
-
-Significant changes are:
-   -    mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to
-        /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time.  This
-	location is choses and most distros provide it during early
-	boot and preserve it through.  As long a /dev exists and is
-	writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created.
-	Other files file communication with mdmon live here too.
-	This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where
-	udev would spin in early-boot.
-   -    IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions
-        as they should only be used on whole-disks.
-   -    Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed.
-   -    A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with
-        --kill-subarray.  Also subarrays can be renamed with
-	--update-subarray
-   -    -If (or --incremental --fail) can be used  from udev to
-        fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been
-	unplugged from the system.  i.e. hot-unplug-support.
-   -    "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device
-        that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't
-	and will automatically --re-add it
-   -    Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings.
-   -    Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc
-
-This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
-upgrade to 3.1.3
-
-It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new
-features.  3.1.4 will only happen if important bugs show up before 3.2
-is stable.
-
-NeilBrown 6th August 2010
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1.4 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.4
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.1.4
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.3.
-3.1.3 had a couple of embarrasing regressions and a couple of other
-issues surfaces which had easy fixes so I decided to make a 3.1.4
-release after all.
-
-Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev:
-   - Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop
-   - Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev
-And fixed regressions:
-   - Allow --incremental to add spares to an array
-   - Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than
-            throwing an error
-   - Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling 
-     a container which does not yet have enough devices.
-   - Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it.
-   - Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf
-   - Fix spare migration
-
-This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
-upgrade to 3.1.4
-
-It is expected that the next release will be 3.2 with a number of new
-features.
-
-NeilBrown 31st August 2010
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.1.5 b/ANNOUNCE-3.1.5
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.1.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.1.5
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-This is a bugfix/stability release over 3.1.4.  It contains all the
-important bugfixes found while working on 3.2 and 3.2.1.  It will be
-the last 3.1.x release - 3.2.1 is expected to be released in a few days.
-
-Changes include:
-  - Fixes for v1.x metadata on big-endian machines.
-  - man page improvements
-  - Improve '--detail --export' when run on partitions of an md array.
-  - Fix regression with removing 'failed' or 'detached' devices.
-  - Fixes for "--assemble --force" in various unusual cases.
-  - Allow '-Y' to mean --export.  This was documented but not implemented.
-  - Various fixed for handling 'ddf' metadata.  This is now more reliable
-    but could benefit from more interoperability testing.
-  - Correctly list subarrays of a container in "--detail" output.
-  - Improve checks on whether the requested number of devices is supported
-    by the metadata - both for --create and --grow.
-  - Don't remove partitions from a device that is being included in an
-    array until we are fully committed to including it.
-  - Allow "--assemble --update=no-bitmap" so an array with a corrupt
-    bitmap can still be assembled.
-  - Don't allow --add to succeed if it looks like a "--re-add" is probably
-    wanted, but cannot succeed.  This avoids inadvertently turning
-    devices into spares when an array is failed.
-
-This release is believed to be stable and you should feel free to
-upgrade to 3.1.5
-
-
-NeilBrown 23rd March 2011
-
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.2 b/ANNOUNCE-3.2
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux (DEVEL ONLY)
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm devel-3.2
-   http://neil.brown.name/git?p=mdadm
-
-This is a "Developers only" release.  Please don't consider using it
-or making it available to others without reading the following.
-
-
-By far the most significant change in this release related to the
-management of reshaping arrays.  This code has been substantially
-re-written so that it can work with 'externally managed metadata' -
-Intel's IMSM in particular.  We now support level migration and
-OnLine Capacity Expansion on these arrays.
-
-However, while the code largely works it has not been tested
-exhaustively so there are likely to be problems.  As the reshape code
-for native metadata arrays was changed as part of this rewrite these
-problems could also result in regressions for reshape of native
-metadata.
-
-It is partly to encourage greater testing that this release is being
-made.  Any reports of problem - particular reproducible recipes for
-triggering the problems - will be gratefully received.
-
-It is hopped that a "3.2.1" release will be available in early March
-which will be a bugfix release over this and can be considered
-suitable for general use.
-
-Other changes of note:
-
- - Policy framework.
-   Various policy statements can be made in the mdadm.conf to guide
-   the behaviour of mdadm, particular with regards to how new devices
-   are treated by "mdadm -I".
-   Depending on the 'action' associated with a device (identified by
-   its 'path') such need devices can be automatically re-added to and
-   existing array that they previously fell out off, or automatically
-   added as a spare if they appear to contain no data.
-
- - mdadm now has a limited understanding of partition tables.  This
-   allows the policy framework to make decisions about partitioned
-   devices as well.
-
- - --incremental --remove can be told what --path the device was on,
-   and this info will be recorded so that another device appearing at
-   the same physical location can be preferentially added to the same
-   array (provides the spare-same-slot action policy applied to the
-   path).
-
- - A new flags "--invalid-backup" flag is available in --assemble
-   mode.  This can be used to re-assemble an array which was stopping
-   in the middle of a reshape, and for which the 'backup file' is no
-   longer available or is corrupted.  The array may have some
-   corruption in it at the point where reshape was up to, but at least
-   the rest of the array will become available.
-   
-
- - Various internal restructuring - more is needed.
-
-
-Any feed back and bug reports are always welcomed at:
-    linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
-
-And please:  don't use this in production - particularly not the
---grow functionality.
-
-NeilBrown 1st February 2011
-
-
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.2.1 b/ANNOUNCE-3.2.1
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-
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-Many of the changes in this release are of internal interest only,
-restructuring and refactoring code and so forth.
-
-Most of the bugs found and fixed during development for 3.2.1 have been
-back-ported for the recently-release 3.1.5 so this release primarily
-provides a few new features over 3.1.5.
-
-They include:
-  - policy framework
-     Policy can be expressed for moving spare devices between arrays, and
-     for how to handle hot-plugged devices.  This policy can be different
-     for devices plugged in to different controllers etc.
-     This, for example, allows a configuration where when a device is plugged
-     in it is immediately included in an md array as a hot spare and
-     possibly starts recovery immediately if an array is degraded.
-
-  - some understanding of mbr and gpt paritition tables
-     This is primarly to support the new hot-plug support.  If a
-     device is plugged in and policy suggests it should have a partition table,
-     the partition table will be copied from a suitably similar device, and
-     then the partitions will hot-plug and can then be added to md arrays.
-
-  - "--incremental --remove" can remember where a device was removed from
-    so if a device gets plugged back in the same place, special policy applies
-    to it, allowing it to be included in an array even if a general hotplug
-    will not be included.
-
-  - enhanced reshape options, including growing a RAID0 by converting to RAID4,
-    restriping, and converting back.  Also convertions between RAID0 and
-    RAID10 and between RAID1 and RAID10 are possible (with a suitably recent
-    kernel).
-
-  - spare migration for IMSM arrays.
-     Spare migration can now work across 'containers' using non-native metadata
-     and specifically Intel's IMSM arrays support spare migrations.
-
-  - OLCE and level migration for Intel IMSM arrays.
-     OnLine Capacity Expansion and level migration (e.g. RAID0 -> RAID5) is
-     supported for Intel Matrix Storage Manager arrays.
-     This support is currently 'experimental' for technical reasons.  It can
-     be enabled with "export MDADM_EXPERIMENTAL=1"
-
-  - avoid including wayward devices
-     If you split a RAID1, mount the two halves as two separate degraded RAID1s,
-     and then later bring the two back together, it is possible that the md 
-     metadata won't properly show that one must over-ride the other.
-     mdadm now does extra checking to detect this possibilty and avoid
-     potentially corrupting data.
-
-  - remove any possible confusion between similar options.
-     e.g. --brief and --bitmap were mapped to 'b' and mdadm wouldn't
-     notice if one was used where the other was expected.
-
-  - allow K,M,G suffixes on chunk sizes
-
-
-While mdadm-3.2.1 is considered to be reasonably stable, you should
-only use it if you want to try out the new features, or if you
-generally like to be on the bleeding edge.   If the new features are not
-important to you, then 3.1.5 is probably the appropriate version to be using
-until 3.2.2 comes out.
-
-NeilBrown 28th March 2011
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.2.2 b/ANNOUNCE-3.2.2
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.2 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2.2
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-This release is largely a stablising release for the 3.2 series.
-Many of the changes just fix bugs introduces in 3.2 or 3.2.1.
-
-There are some new features.  They are:
-  - reshaping IMSM (Intel metadata) arrays is no longer 'experimental',
-    it should work properly and be largely compatible with IMSM drivers in
-    other platforms.
-  - --assume-clean can be used with --grow --size to avoid resyncing the
-    new part of the array.  This is only support with very new kernels.
-  - RAID0 arrays can have chunksize which is not a power of 2.  This has been
-    supported in the kernel for a while but is only now supprted by
-    mdadm.
-
-  - A new tool 'raid6check' is available which can check a RAID6 array,
-    or part of it, and report which device is most inconsistent with the
-    others if any stripe is inconsistent.   This is still under development
-    and does not have a man page yet.  If anyone tries it out and has any
-    questions or experience to report, they would be most welcome on
-    linux-raid@vger.kernel.org.
-
-Future releases in the 3.2 series will only be made if bugfixes are needed.
-The next release to add features is expected to be 3.3.
-
-NeilBrown 17th June 2011
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.2.3 b/ANNOUNCE-3.2.3
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.3 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2.3
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-This release is largely a bugfix release for the 3.2 series with many
-minor fixes with little or no impact.
-
-The largest single area of change is support for reshape of Intel
-IMSM arrays (OnLine Capacity Explansion and Level Migtration).
-Among other fixes, this now has a better chance of surviving if a
-device fails during reshape.
-
-Upgrading is recommended - particularly if you use mdadm for IMSM
-arrays - but not essential.
-
-NeilBrown 23rd December 2011
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.4 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2.4
-
-It is available at the usual places, now including github:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-This release is largely a bugfix release for the 3.2 series with many
-minor fixes with little or no impact.
-
-"--oneline" log of changes is below.  Some notable ones are:
-
- - --offroot argument to improve interactions between mdmon and initrd
- - --prefer argument to select which /dev names to display in some
-   circumstances.
- - relax restructions on when "--add" will be allowed
- - Fix bug with adding write-intent-bitmap to active array
- - Now defaults to "/run/mdadm" for storing run-time files.
-
-Upgrading is encouraged.
-
-The next mdadm release is expected to be 3.3 with a number of new
-features.
-
-NeilBrown 9th May 2012
-
-77b3ac8 monitor: make return from read_and_act more symbolic.
-68226a8 monitor: ensure we retry soon when 'remove' fails.
-8453f8d fix: Monitor sometimes crashes
-90fa1a2 Work around gcc-4.7's strict aliasing checks
-0c4304c fix: container creation with --incremental used.
-5d1c7cd FIX: External metadata sometimes is not updated
-3c20f98 FIX: mdmon check in reshape_container() can cause a problem
-59ab9f5 FIX: Typo error in fprint command
-9587c37 imsm: load_super_imsm_all function refactoring
-ec50f7b imsm: load_imsm_super_all supports loading metadata from the device list
-ca9de18 imsm: validate the number of imsm volumes per controller
-30602f5 imsm: display fd in error trace when when store_imsm_mpb failes
-eb155f6 mdmon: Use getopt_long() to parse command line options
-08ca2ad Add --offroot argument to mdadm
-da82751 Add --offroot argument to mdmon
-a0963a8 Spawn mdmon with --offroot if mdadm was launched with --offroot
-f878b24 imsm: fix, the second array need to have the whole available space on devices
-d597705 getinfo_super1: Use MaxSector in place of sb->size
-6ef8905 super1: make aread/awrite always use an aligned buffer.
-de5a472 Remove avail_disks arg from 'enough'.
-da8fe5a Assemble: fix --force assemble during reshape.
-b10c663 config: fix handing of 'homehost' in AUTO line.
-92d49ec FIX: NULL pointer to strdup() can be passed
-d2bde6d imsm: FIX: No new missing disks are allowed during general migration
-111e9fd FIX: Array is not run when expansion disks are added
-bf5cf7c imsm: FIX: imsm_get_allowed_degradation() doesn't count degradation for raid1
-50927b1 Fix: Sometimes mdmon throws core dump during reshape
-78340e2 Flush mdmon before next reshape step during container operation
-e174219 imsm: FIX: Chunk size migration problem
-f93346e FIX: use md position to reshape restart
-6a75c8c imsm: FIX: use md position to reshape restart
-51d83f5 imsm: FIX: Clear migration record when migration switches to next volume.
-e1dd332 FIX: restart reshape when reshape process is stopped just between 2 reshapes
-1ca90aa FIX: Do not try to (continue) reshape using inactive array
-9f1b0f0 config: conf_match should ignore devname when not set.
-d669228 Use posix_memalign() for memory used to write bitmaps
-178950e FIX: Changes in '0' case for reshape position verification
-9200d41 avoid double-free upon "old buggy kernel" sysfs_read failure
-4011421 Print error message if failing to write super for 1.x metadata
-0011874 Use MDMON_DIR for pid files created in Monitor.c
-56d1885 Assemble: don't use O_EXCL until we have checked device content.
-b720636 Assemble: support assembling of a RAID0 being reshaped.
-c69ffac Manage: allow --re-add to failed array.
-52f07f5 Reset bad flag on map update
-911cead super1: support superblocks up to 4K.
-ad6db3c Create: reduce the verbosity of 'default_layout'.
-b2bfdfa super1.c don't keep recalculating bitmap pointer
-4122675 Define and use SUPER1_SIZE for allocations
-1afa930 init_super1() memset full buffer allocated for superblock
-2de0b8a match_metadata_desc1(): Use calloc instead of malloc+memset
-3c0bcd4 Use 4K buffer alignment for superblock allocations
-308340a Use struct align_fd to cache fd's block size for aligned reads/writes
-65ed615 match_metadata_desc0(): Use calloc instead of malloc+memset
-de89706 Generalize ROUND_UP() macro and introduce matching ROUND_UP_PTR()
-0a2f189 super1.c: use ROUND_UP/ROUND_UP_PTR
-654a381 super-intel.c: Use ROUND_UP() instead of manually coding it
-42d5dfd __write_init_super_ddf(): Use posix_memalign() instead of static aligned buffer
-d4633e0 Examine: fix array size calculation for RAID10.
-e62b778 Assemble: improve verbose logging when including old devices.
-0073a6e Remove possible crash during RAID6 -> RAID5 reshape.
-69fe207 Incremental: fix adding devices with --incremental
-bcbb311 Manage: replace 'return 1' with 'goto abort'.
-9f58469 Manage: freeze recovery while adding multiple devices.
-ae6c05a Create: round off size for RAID1 arrays.
-5ca3a90 Grow: print useful error when converting RAID1->RAID5 will fail.
-c07d640 Fix tests/05r1-re-add-nosupper
-2d762ad Fix the new ROUND_UP macro.
-fd324b0 sysfs: fixed sysfs_freeze_array array to work properly with Manage_subdevs.
-5551b11 imsm: avoid overflows for disks over 1TB
-97f81ee clear hi bits if not used after loading metadata from disk
-e03640b simplify calculating array_blocks
-29cd082 show 2TB volumes/disks support in --detail-platform
-2cc699a check volume size in validate_geometry_imsm_orom
-9126b9a check that no disk over 2TB is used to create container when no support
-027c374 imsm: set 2tb disk attribute for spare
-3556c2f Fix typo: wan -> want
-15632a9 parse_size: distinguish between 0 and error.
-fbdef49 Bitmap_offset is a signed number
-508a7f1 super1: leave more space in front of data by default.
-40110b9 Fix two typos in fprintf messages
-342460c mdadm man page: fix typo
-0e7f69a imsm: display maximum volumes per controller and array
-36fd8cc imsm: FIX: Update function imsm_num_data_members() for Raid1/10
-7abc987 imsm: FIX: Add volume size expand support to imsm_analyze_change()
-f3871fd imsm: Add new metadata update for volume size expansion
-54397ed imsm: Execute size change for external metatdata
-016e00f FIX: Support metadata changes rollback
-fbf3d20 imsm: FIX: Support metadata changes rollback
-44f6f18 FIX: Extend size of raid0 array
-7e7e9a4 FIX: Respect metadata size limitations
-65a9798 FIX: Detect error and rollback metadata
-13bcac9 imsm: Add function imsm_get_free_size()
-b130333 imsm: Support setting max size for size change operation
-c41e00b imsm: FIX: Component size alignment check
-58d26a2 FIX: Size change is possible as standalone change only
-4aecb54 FIX: Assembled second array is in read only state during reshape
-ae2416e FIX: resolve make everything compilation error
-480f356 Raid limit of 1024 when scanning for devices.
-c2ecf5f Add --prefer option for --detail and --monitor
-0a99975 Relax restrictions on when --add is permitted.
-7ce0570 imsm: fix: rebuild does not continue after reboot
-b51702b fix: correct extending size of raid0 array
-34a1395 Fix sign extension of bitmap_offset in super1.c
-012a864 Introduce sysfs_set_num_signed() and use it to set bitmap/offset
-5d7b407 imsm: fix: thunderdome may drop 2tb attribute
-5ffdc2d Update test for "is udev active".
-96fd06e Adjust to new standard of /run
-974e039 test: don't worry too much about array size.
-b0a658f Grow: failing the set the per-device size is not an error.
-36614e9 super-intel.c: Don't try to close negative fd
-562aa10 super-intel.c: Fix resource leak from opendir()
-
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.2.5 b/ANNOUNCE-3.2.5
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.5 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am somewhat disappointed to have to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2.5
-
-It is available at the usual places, now including github:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-This release primarily fixes a serious regression in 3.2.4.
-This regression does *not* cause any risk to data.  It simply
-means that adding a device with "--add" would sometime fail
-when it should not.
-
-The fix also includes a couple of minor fixes such as making
-the "--layout=preserve" option to "--grow" work again.
-
-A reminder that the default location for runtime files is now
-"/run/mdadm".  If you compile this for a distro that does not
-have "/run", you will need to compile with an alternate setting for
-MAP_DIR. e.g.
-   make MAP_DIR=/var/run/mdadm
-or
-   make MAP_DIR=/dev/.mdadm
-
-NeilBrown 18th May 2012
-
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.2.6 b/ANNOUNCE-3.2.6
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-Subject:  ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.2.6 - A tool for managing Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.2.6
-
-It is available at the usual places, now including github:
-   countrycode=xx.
-   http://www.${countrycode}kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-This is a stablity release which adds a number of bugfixs to 3.2.5.
-There are no real stand-out fixes, just lots of little bits and pieces.
-
-Below is the "git log --oneline --reverse" list of changes since
-3.2.5.
-
-NeilBrown 25th October 2012
-
-b7e05d2 udev-rules: prevent systemd from mount devices before they are ready.
-0d478e2 mdadm: Fix Segmentation fault.
-42f0ca1 imsm: fix: correct checking volume's degradation
-fcf2195 Monitor: fix inconsistencies in values for ->percent
-5f862fb Monitor: Report NewArray when an array the disappeared, reappears.
-6f51b1c Monitor: fix reporting for Fail vs FailSpare etc.
-68ad53b mdmon: fix arg parsing.
-517f135 Assemble: don't leak memory with fdlist.
-090900c udev-rules: prevent systemd from mount devices before they are ready.
-446e000 sha1.h: remove ansidecl.h header inclusion
-ec894f5 Manage: zero metadata before adding to 'external' array.
-3a84db5 ddf: allow a non-spare to be used to recovery a missing device.
-c5d61ca ddf: hack to fix container recognition.
-23084aa mdmon: fix arg processing for -a
-c4e96a3 mdmon: allow --takeover when original was started with --offroot
-80841df find_free_devnum: avoid auto-using names in /etc/mdadm.conf
-c5c56d6 mapfile: fix mapfile rebuild for containers
-aec89f6 fix segfaults in Detail()
-2117ad1 Fix 'enough' function for RAID10.
-0bc300d Use --offroot flag when assembling md arrays via --incrmental
-ac78f24 Grow: make warning about old metadata more explicit.
-14026ab Replace sha1.h with slightly older version.
-6f6809f Add zlib license to crc32.c
-5267ba0 Handles spaces in array names better.
-c51f288 imsm: allow --assume-clean to work.
-acf7076 Grow: allow --grow --continue to work for native metadata.
-335d2a6 Grow: fix a couple of typos with --assume-clean usage
-9ff1427 Fix open_container
-3713633 mdadm: super0: do not override uuid with homehost
-31bff58 Trivial bugfix and spelling fixes.
-e1e539f Detail: don't report a faulty device as 'spare' or 'rebuilding'.
-22a6461 super0: allow creation of array on 2TB+ devices.
-a5d47a2 Create new md devices consistently
-eb48676 Monitor: don't complain about non-monitorable arrays in mdadm.conf
-ecdf2d7 Query: don't be confused by partition tables.
-f7b75c1 Query: allow member of non-0.90 arrays to be better reported.
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-3.3 b/ANNOUNCE-3.3
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.3 - A tools for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.3
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-This is a major new release so don't be too surprised if there are a
-few issues.  If I hear about them they will be fixed in 3.3.1.
-git log reports nearly 500 changes since 3.2.6 so I won't list them
-all.
-
-Some highlights are:
-
-- Some array reshapes can proceed without needing backup file.
-  This is done by changing the 'data_offset' so we never need to write
-  any data back over where it was before.  If there is no "head space"
-  or "tail space" to allow data_offset to change, the old mechanism
-  with a backup file can still be used.
-- RAID10 arrays can be reshaped to change the number of devices,
-  change the chunk size, or change the layout between 'near'
-  and 'offset'.
-  This will always change data_offset, and will fail if there is no
-  room for data_offset to be moved.
-- "--assemble --update=metadata" can convert a 0.90 array to a 1.0 array.
-- bad-block-logs are supported (but not heavily tested yet)
-- "--assemble --update=revert-reshape" can be used to undo a reshape
-  that has just been started but isn't really wanted.  This is very
-  new and while it passes basic tests it cannot be guaranteed.
-- improved locking between --incremental and --assemble
-- uses systemd to run "mdmon" if systemd is configured to do that.
-- kernel names of md devices can be non-numeric. e.g. "md_home" rather than
-  "md0".  This will probably confuse lots of other tools, so you need to
-       echo CREATE names=yes >> /etc/mdadm.conf
-  or the feature will not be used.  (you also need a reasonably new kernel).
-- "--stop" can be given a kernel name instead of a device name. i.e
-     mdadm --stop md4
-  will work even if /dev/md4 doesn't exist.
-- "--detail --export" has some information about the devices in the array
-- --dump and --restore can be used to backup and restore the metadata on an
-   array.
-- Hot-replace is supported with
-     mdadm /dev/mdX --replace /dev/foo
-  and
-     mdadm /dev/mdX --replace /dev/foo --with /dev/bar
-- Config file can be a directory in which case all "*.conf" files are
-  read in lexical order.
-  Default is to read /etc/mdadm.conf and then /etc/mdadm.conf.d
-  Thus
-      echo CREATE name=yes > /etc/mdadm.conf.d/names.conf
-  will also enable the use of named md devices.
-
-- Lots of improvements to DDF support including adding support for
-  RAID10 (thanks Martin Wilck).
-
-and lots of bugfixes and other little changes.
-
-NeilBrown 3rd September 2013
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.3.1 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.3.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm.git
-
-The main changes are:
- - lots of work on "DDF" support.  Hopefully it will be more stable
-   now.  Bug reports are always welcome.
- - improved interactions with 'systemd'.  Where possible, background
-   tasks are run from systemd (if it is present) rather then forking
-   disassociationg from the session.  This is important because udev
-   doesn't really let you disassociate.
-
-though there are a number of other little bug fixes too.
-
-NeilBrown 5th June 2014
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.3.2 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.3.2
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm.git
-
-Changes since 3.3.1 are mostly little bugfixes and some man-page
-updates.
-
-NeilBrown 21st August 2014
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.3.3 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.3.3
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm.git
-
-The 100 changes since 3.3.3 are mostly little bugfixes and some improvements
-to the selftests.
-raid6check now handle all RAID6 layouts including DDF correctly.
-See git log for the rest.
-
-NeilBrown 24th July 2015
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.3.4 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am somewhat disappointed to have to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.3.4
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm.git
-
-In mdadm-3.3 a change was made to how IMSM (Intel Matrix Storage
-Manager) metadata was handled.  Previously an IMSM array would only
-be assembled if it was attached to an IMSM controller.
-
-In 3.3 this was relaxed as there are circumstances where the
-controller is not properly detected.  Unfortunately this has negative
-consequences which have only just come to light.
-
-If you have an IMSM RAID1 configured and then disable RAID in the
-BIOS, the metadata will remain on the devices.  If you then install
-some other OS on one device and then install Linux on the other, Linux
-might eventually start noticing the IMSM metadata (depending a bit on whether
-mdadm is included in the initramfs) and might start up the RAID1.  This could
-copy one device over the other, thus trashing one of the installations.
-
-Not good.
-
-So with this release IMSM arrays will only be assembled if attached to
-an IMSM controller, or if "--force" is given to --assemble, or if the
-environment variable IMSM_NO_PLATFORM is set (used primarily for
-testing).
-
-I strongly recommend upgrading to 3.3.4 if you are using 3.3 or later.
-
-NeilBrown 3rd August 2015.
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 3.4 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 3.4
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://github.com/neilbrown/mdadm
-   git://neil.brown.name/mdadm
-   http://git.neil.brown.name/git/mdadm
-
-The new second-level version number reflects significant new
-functionality, particular support for journalled RAID5/6 and clustered
-RAID1.  This new support is probably still buggy.  Please report bugs.
-
-There are also a number of fixes for Intel's IMSM metadata support,
-and an assortment of minor bug fixes.
-
-I plan for this to be the last release of mdadm that I provide as I am
-retiring from MD and mdadm maintenance.  Jes Sorensen has volunteered
-to oversee mdadm for the next while.  Thanks Jes!
-
-NeilBrown 28th January 2016
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-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.0 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 4.0
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
-   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/
-
-The update in major version number primarily indicates this is a
-release by it's new maintainer. In addition it contains a large number
-of fixes in particular for IMSM RAID and clustered RAID support.  In
-addition this release includes support for IMSM 4k sector drives,
-failfast and better documentation for journaled RAID.
-
-This is my first release of mdadm. Please thank Neil Brown for his
-previous work as maintainer and blame me for all the bugs I caused
-since taking over.
-
-Jes Sorensen, 2017-01-09
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-4.1 b/ANNOUNCE-4.1
deleted file mode 100644
index a273b9a..0000000
--- a/ANNOUNCE-4.1
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,16 +0,0 @@
-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.1 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to announce the availability of
-   mdadm version 4.1
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
-   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/
-
-The update constitutes more than one year of enhancements and bug fixes
-including for IMSM RAID, Partial Parity Log, clustered RAID support,
-improved testing, and gcc-8 support.
-
-Jes Sorensen, 2018-10-01
diff --git a/ANNOUNCE-4.2 b/ANNOUNCE-4.2
deleted file mode 100644
index 8b22d09..0000000
--- a/ANNOUNCE-4.2
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-Subject: ANNOUNCE: mdadm 4.2 - A tool for managing md Soft RAID under Linux
-
-I am pleased to finally announce the availability of mdadm-4.2.
-get 4.2 out the door soon.
-
-It is available at the usual places:
-   http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/
-and via git at
-   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git
-   http://git.kernel.org/cgit/utils/mdadm/
-
-The release includes more than two years of development and bugfixes,
-so it is difficult to remember everything. Highlights include
-enhancements and bug fixes including for IMSM RAID, Partial Parity
-Log, clustered RAID support, improved testing, and gcc-9 support.
-
-Thank you everyone who contributed to this release!
-
-Jes Sorensen, 2021-12-30
diff --git a/Assemble.c b/Assemble.c
index 9d04205..f6c5b99 100644
--- a/Assemble.c
+++ b/Assemble.c
@@ -1988,7 +1988,7 @@ int assemble_container_content(struct supertype *st, int mdfd,
 	 * and ignoring special character on the first place.
 	 */
 	if (strcmp(sra->text_version + 1, content->text_version + 1) != 0) {
-		if (sysfs_set_array(content, 9003) != 0) {
+		if (sysfs_set_array(content) != 0) {
 			sysfs_free(sra);
 			return 1;
 		}
diff --git a/Build.c b/Build.c
index 1fbf859..1be90e4 100644
--- a/Build.c
+++ b/Build.c
@@ -156,12 +156,6 @@ int Build(struct mddev_ident *ident, struct mddev_dev *devlist, struct shape *s,
 		bitmap_fd = open(s->bitmap_file, O_RDWR);
 		if (bitmap_fd < 0) {
 			int major = BITMAP_MAJOR_HI;
-#if 0
-			if (s->bitmap_chunk == UnSet) {
-				pr_err("%s cannot be opened.\n", s->bitmap_file);
-				goto abort;
-			}
-#endif
 			bitmapsize = s->size >> 9; /* FIXME wrong for RAID10 */
 			if (CreateBitmap(s->bitmap_file, 1, NULL,
 					 s->bitmap_chunk, c->delay,
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c1997ba
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -0,0 +1,368 @@
+# Release [mdadm-4.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.3)
+
+Features:
+- **IMSM_NO_PLATFORM** boot parameter support from Neil Brown.
+- **--write-zeros** option support by Logan Gunthorpe.
+- **IMSM** monetization by VMD register from Mateusz Grzonka.
+- RST SATA under VMD support from Kevin Friedberg.
+- Strong name rules from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
+
+Fixes:
+- Unify failed raid behavior from Coly Li.
+- Rework of **--update** options from Mateusz Kusiak.
+- **mdmon-initrd** service from Neil Brown.
+- **IMSM** expand functionality rework from Mariusz Tkaczyk.
+- Mdmonitor improvements from Mateusz Grzonka.
+- Failed state verification from Mateusz Kusiak and Kinga Tanska.
+
+# Release [mdadm-4.2](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.2)
+
+The release includes more than two years of development and bugfixes, so it is difficult to
+remember everything. Highlights include enhancements and bug fixes including for **IMSM** RAID,
+Partial Parity Log, clustered RAID support, improved testing, and gcc-9 support.
+
+# Release [mdadm-4.1](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.1)
+
+The update constitutes more than one year of enhancements and bug fixes including for **IMSM**
+RAID, Partial Parity Log, clustered RAID support, improved testing, and gcc-8 support.
+
+# Release [mdadm-4.0](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-4.0)
+
+The update in major version number primarily indicates this is a release by it's new maintainer.
+In addition it contains a large number of fixes in particular for IMSM RAID and clustered RAID
+support. In addition, this release includes support for IMSM 4k sector drives, failfast and better
+documentation for journaled RAID.
+
+This is my first release of mdadm. Please thank Neil Brown for his previous work as maintainer and
+blame me for all the bugs I caused since taking over.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.4](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.4)
+
+- Support for journalled RAID5/6 and clustered RAID1. This new support is probably still buggy.
+  Please report bugs.
+
+- There are also a number of fixes for **IMSM** support and an assortment of minor bug fixes.
+
+- I plan for this to be the last release of mdadm that I provide as I am retiring from MD and mdadm
+  maintenance. Jes Sorensen has volunteered to oversee mdadm for the next while. Thanks Jes!
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.3.4](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.3.4)
+
+**I strongly recommend upgrading to 3.3.4 if you are using 3.3 or later with IMSM.**
+
+- **IMSM** metadata assemble fixes.
+
+  In mdadm-3.3 a change was made to how **IMSM** metadata was handled. Previously an **IMSM** array
+  would only be assembled if it was attached to an **IMSM** controller. In 3.3 this was relaxed as
+  there are circumstances where the controller is not properly detected. Unfortunately, this has
+  negative consequences which have only just come to light.
+
+  If you have an IMSM RAID1 configured and then disable RAID in the BIOS, the metadata will remain
+  on the devices. If you then install some other OS on one device and then install Linux on the
+  other, Linux might eventually start noticing the IMSM metadata (depending a bit on whether
+  mdadm is included in the initramfs) and might start up the RAID1. This could copy one device over
+  the other, thus trashing one of the installations.
+
+  So, with this release IMSM arrays will only be assembled if attached to an **IMSM** controller,
+  or if **--force** is given to **--assemble**, or if the environment variable
+  **IMSM_NO_PLATFORM=1** is set (used primarily for testing).
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.3.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.3.3)
+
+- The 100 changes since 3.3.3 are mostly little bugfixes and some improvements to the self-tests.
+- raid6check now handle all RAID6 layouts including **DDF** correctly. See git log for the rest.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.3.2](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.3.2)
+
+- Little bugfixes and some man-page updates.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.3.1](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.3.1)
+
+- lots of work on **DDF** support.
+- Improved interactions with **systemd**. Where possible, background tasks are run from systemd
+  rather than forking.
+- Number of other little bug fixes too.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.3)
+
+- Some array reshapes can proceed without needing backup file. This is done by changing the
+  data_offset* so we never need to write any data back over where it was before. If there is no
+  'head space' or 'tail space' to allow *data_offset* to change, the old mechanism with a backup
+  file can still be used.
+
+- RAID10 arrays can be reshaped to change the number of devices, change the chunk size, or change
+  the layout between *near* and *offset*.
+  This will always change *data_offset*, and will fail if there is no room for *data_offset* to be
+  moved.
+
+- **--assemble --update=metadata** can convert a **0.90** array to a **1.0** array.
+
+- **bad-block-logs** are supported (but not heavily tested yet).
+
+- **--assemble --update=revert-reshape** can be used to undo a reshape that has just been started
+  but isn't really wanted. This is very new and while it passes basic tests it cannot be
+  guaranteed.
+
+- improved locking between **--incremental** and **--assemble**.
+
+- uses systemd to run **mdmon** if systemd is configured to do that.
+- kernel names of md devices can be non-numeric. e.g. "md_home" rather than
+  "md0". This will probably confuse lots of other tools, so you need to
+  **echo CREATE names=yes >> /etc/mdadm.conf** or the feature will not be used (you also need a
+  reasonably new kernel).
+
+- **--stop** can be given a kernel name instead of a device name. i.e. **mdadm --stop md4** will
+  work even if /dev/md4 doesn't exist.
+
+- **--detail --export** has some information about the devices in the array.
+- **--dump** and **--restore** can be used to backup and restore the metadata on an array.
+- Hot-replace is supported with **mdadm /dev/mdX --replace /dev/foo** and
+  **mdadm /dev/mdX --replace /dev/foo --with /dev/bar**.
+
+- Config file can be a directory in which case all "*.conf" files are read in lexical order.
+  Default is to read **/etc/mdadm.conf** and then **/etc/mdadm.conf.d**. Thus
+  **echo CREATE name=yes > /etc/mdadm.conf.d/names.conf** will also enable the use of named md
+  devices.
+
+- Lots of improvements to **DDF** support including adding support for RAID10 (thanks Martin Wilck).
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2.6](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2.6)
+
+- There are no real stand-out fixes, just lots of little bits and pieces.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2.5](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2.5)
+
+- This release primarily fixes a serious regression in 3.2.4. This regression does *not* cause
+  any risk to data. It simply means that adding a device with **--add** would sometime fail
+  when it should not.
+- The fix also includes a couple of minor fixes such as making the **--layout=preserve** option to
+  **--grow** work again.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2.4](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2.4)
+
+ - **--offroot** argument to improve interactions between mdmon and initrd.
+ - **--prefer** argument to select which */dev* names to display in some circumstances.
+ - relax restrictions on when **--add** will be allowed.
+ - Fix bug with adding write-intent-bitmap to active array.
+ - Now defaults to */run/mdadm* for storing run-time files.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2.3)
+
+- The largest single area of change is support for reshape of Intel IMSM arrays (OnLine Capacity
+  Expansion and Level Migration).
+- Among other fixes, this now has a better chance of surviving if a device fails during reshape.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2.2](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2.2)
+
+- reshaping IMSM (Intel metadata) arrays is no longer 'experimental', it should work properly and be
+  largely compatible with IMSM drivers in other platforms.
+- **--assume-clean** can be used with **--grow --size** to avoid resyncing the new part of the
+  array. This is only support with very new kernels.
+- RAID0 arrays can have chunksize which is not a power of 2. This has been supported in the kernel
+  for a while but is only now supported by mdadm.
+
+- A new tool **raid6check** is available, which can check a RAID6 array, or part of it and report
+  which device is most inconsistent with the others if any stripe is inconsistent. This is still
+  under development and does not have a man page yet. If anyone tries it out and has any questions
+  or experience to report, they would be most welcome on linux-raid@vger.kernel.org.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2.1](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2.1)
+
+- Policy framework
+
+  Policy can be expressed for moving spare devices between arrays, and for how to handle hot-plugged
+  devices. This policy can be different for devices plugged in to different controllers etc. This,
+  for example, allows a configuration where when a device is plugged in it is immediately included
+  in an md array as a hot spare and possibly starts recovery immediately if an array is degraded.
+
+- Some understanding of mbr and gpt paritition tables. This is primarily to support the new
+  hot-plug support. If a device is plugged in and policy suggests it should have a partition table,
+  the partition table will be copied from a suitably similar device, and then the partitions will
+  hot-plug and can then be added to md arrays.
+
+- **--incremental --remove** can remember where a device was removed from so if a device gets
+  plugged back in the same place, special policy applies to it, allowing it to be included in an
+  array even if a general hotplug will not be included.
+
+- Enhanced reshape options, including growing a RAID0 by converting to RAID4, restriping, and
+  converting back. Also convertions between RAID0 and RAID10 and between RAID1 and RAID10 are
+  possible (with a suitably recent kernel).
+
+- Spare migration for IMSM arrays. Spare migration can now work across 'containers' using
+  non-native metadata and specifically Intel's IMSM arrays support spare migrations.
+
+- OLCE and level migration for Intel IMSM arrays. OnLine Capacity Expansion and level migration
+  (e.g. RAID0 -> RAID5) is supported for Intel Matrix Storage Manager arrays. This support is
+  currently *experimental* for technical reasons. It can be enabled with
+  **export MDADM_EXPERIMENTAL=1**.
+
+- avoid including wayward devices.
+
+  If you split a RAID1, mount the two halves as two separate degraded RAID1s, and then later bring
+  the two back together, it is possible that the md metadata won't properly show that one must
+  over-ride the other. Mdadm now does extra checking to detect this possibility and avoid
+  potentially corrupting data.
+
+- Remove any possible confusion between similar options. e.g. **--brief** and **--bitmap** were
+  mapped to 'b' and mdadm wouldn't notice if one was used where the other was expected.
+
+- Allow K,M,G suffixes on chunk sizes.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.2](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.2)
+
+- By far the most significant change in this release related to the management of reshaping arrays.
+  This code has been substantially re-written so that it can work with **externally managed
+  metadata** -Intel's IMSM in particular. We now support level migration and OnLine Capacity
+  Expansion on these arrays.
+
+- Various policy statements can be made in the *mdadm.conf* to guide the behavior of mdadm,
+  particular with regards to how new devices are treated by **--incremental**. Depending on the
+  *action* associated with a device (identified by its *path*) such need devices can be
+  automatically re-added to and existing array that they previously fell out off, or automatically
+  added as a spare if they appear to contain no data.
+
+- mdadm now has a limited understanding of partition tables. This allows the policy framework to
+  make decisions about partitioned devices as well.
+
+- **--incremental --remove** can be told what **--path** the device was on, and this info will be
+  recorded so that another device appearing at the same physical location can be preferentially
+  added to the same array (provides the spare-same-slot action policy applied to the path).
+
+- A new flags **--invalid-backup** flag is available in **--assemble** mode. This can be used to
+  re-assemble an array which was stopping in the middle of a reshape, and for which the
+  *backup file* is no longer available or is corrupted. The array may have some corruption in it
+  at the point where reshape was up to, but at least the rest of the array will become available.
+
+- Policy framework.
+- Various internal restructuring - more is needed.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.1.5](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.1.5)
+
+- Fixes for **v1.x** metadata on big-endian machines.
+- man page improvements.
+- Improve **--detail --export** when run on partitions of an md array.
+- Fix regression with removing *failed* or *detached* devices.
+- Fixes for **--assemble --force** in various unusual cases.
+- Allow **-Y** to mean **--export**. This was documented but not implemented.
+- Various fixes for handling **ddf** metadata. This is now more reliable but could benefit from
+  more interoperability testing.
+- Correctly list subarrays of a container in **--detail** output.
+- Improve checks on whether the requested number of devices is supported by the metadata, both for
+  **--create** and **--grow**.
+- Don't remove partitions from a device that is being included in an array until we are fully
+  committed to including it.
+- Allow **--assemble --update=no-bitmap** so an array with a corrupt bitmap can still be assembled.
+- Don't allow **--add** to succeed if it looks like a **--re-add** is probably wanted, but cannot
+  succeed. This avoids inadvertently turning devices into spares when an array is failed.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.1.4](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.1.4)
+
+Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev:
+- Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on **--stop**.
+- Allow dev_open to work on read-only */dev*.
+
+And fixed regressions:
+- Allow **--incremental** to add spares to an array.
+- Accept **--no-degraded** as a deprecated option rather than throwing an error.
+- Return correct success status when **--incremental** assembling a container which does not yet
+  have enough devices.
+- Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it.
+- Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.1.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.1.3)
+
+- mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to */dev/.mdadm/map*, but can be changed at
+  compile time. This location is chosen and most distros provide it during early boot and preserve
+  it through. As long a */dev* exists and is writable, */dev/.mdadm* will be created. Other files
+  communication with mdmon live here too. This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where
+  udev would spin in early-boot.
+
+- IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognized on partitions as they should only be used on
+  whole-disks.
+
+- Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed.
+
+- A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with **--kill-subarray**. Also, subarrays can be
+  renamed with **--update-subarray --update=name**.
+
+- **-If** (or **--incremental --fail**) can be used from udev to fail and remove from all arrays
+  a device which has been unplugged from the system i.e. hot-unplug-support.
+
+- **/dev/mdX --re-add missing** will look for any device that looks like it should be a member of
+  */dev/mdX* but isn't and will automatically **--re-add** it.
+
+- Now compile with *-Wextra* to get extra warnings.
+- Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etc.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.1.2](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.1.2)
+
+- The default metadata has change again (sorry about that). It is now **v1.2** and will hopefully
+  stay that way. It turned out there with boot-block issues with **v1.1** which make it unsuitable
+  for a default, though in many cases it is still suitable to use.
+
+- Add *homehost* to the valid words for the **AUTO** config file line. When followed by *-all*,
+  this causes mdadm to auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not auto-assemble
+  anything else.
+
+- VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN. This gives distros more
+  flexibility in how to manage the pid and sock files that mdmon needs.
+
+- If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies, the previously had to be listed in the
+  "right" order. Now, any order should work.
+
+- Fix some bugs with **--grow --chunksize=**.
+- Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still active.
+- Various mdmon fixes.
+- Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible.
+- Fix **--force** assembly of **v1.x** arrays which are in the process of recovering.
+- Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page.
+- Various command-line-option parsing improvements.
+- ... and lots of other bug fixes.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.1.1](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.1.1)
+
+- Multiple fixes for new **--grow** levels including fixes for serious data corruption
+  problems.
+- Change default metadata to **v1.1**.
+- Change default chunk size to 512K.
+- Change default bitmap chunk size to 64MB.
+- When **--re-add** is used, don't fall back to **--add** as this can destroy data.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.1](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.1)
+
+- Support **--grow** to change the layout of RAID 4/5/6.
+- Support **--grow** to change the chunk size of RAID 4/5/6.
+- Support **--grow** to change level from RAID1 -> RAID5 -> RAID6 and back.
+- Support **--grow** to reduce the number of devices in RAID 4/5/6.
+- Support restart of these grow options which assembling an array which is partially grown.
+- Assorted tests of this code, and of different RAID6 layouts.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.0.3](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.0.3)
+
+- Improvements for creating arrays giving just a name, like *foo*, rather than the full
+  */dev/md/foo*.
+- Improvements for assembling member arrays of containers.
+- Improvements to test suite.
+- Add option to change increment for *RebuildNN* messages reported by **--monitor**.
+- Improvements to **mdmon** hand-over from initrd to final root.
+- Handle merging of devices that have left an IMSM array and are being re-incorporated.
+- Add missing space in **--detail --brief** output.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.0.2](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.0.2)
+
+- Fix crash when **homehost** is not set, as often happens in early boot.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.0.1](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.0.1)
+
+- Fix various segfaults.
+- Fixed for **--examine** with containers.
+- Lots of other little fixes.
+
+# Release [mdadm-3.0](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git/log/?h=mdadm-3.0)
+
+- Support for **externally managed metadata**, specifically DDF and IMSM.
+- Depend on udev to create entries in */dev*, rather than creating them ourselves.
+- Remove **--auto-update-home-hosts**.
+- New config file line **auto**.
+- New *ignore* and *any* options for **homehost**.
+- Numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
deleted file mode 100644
index a3bf700..0000000
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,306 +0,0 @@
-Please see git logs for detailed change log.
-This file just contains highlight.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.3
-- Some array reshapes can proceed without needing backup file.
-  This is done by changing the 'data_offset' so we never need to write
-  any data back over where it was before.  If there is no "head space"
-  or "tail space" to allow data_offset to change, the old mechanism
-  with a backup file can still be used.
-- RAID10 arrays can be reshaped to change the number of devices,
-  change the chunk size, or change the layout between 'near'
-  and 'offset'.
-  This will always change data_offset, and will fail if there is no
-  room for data_offset to be moved.
-- "--assemble --update=metadata" can convert a 0.90 array to a 1.0 array.
-- bad-block-logs are supported (but not heavily tested yet)
-- "--assemble --update=revert-reshape" can be used to undo a reshape
-  that has just been started but isn't really wanted.  This is very
-  new and while it passes basic tests it cannot be guaranteed.
-- improved locking between --incremental and --assemble
-- uses systemd to run "mdmon" if systemd is configured to do that.
-- kernel names of md devices can be non-numeric. e.g. "md_home" rather than
-  "md0".  This will probably confuse lots of other tools, so you need to
-       echo CREATE names=yes >> /etc/mdadm.conf
-  or the feature will not be used.  (you also need a reasonably new kernel).
-- "--stop" can be given a kernel name instead of a device name. i.e
-     mdadm --stop md4
-  will work even if /dev/md4 doesn't exist.
-- "--detail --export" has some information about the devices in the array
-- --dump and --restore can be used to backup and restore the metadata on an
-   array.
-- Hot-replace is supported with
-     mdadm /dev/mdX --replace /dev/foo
-  and
-     mdadm /dev/mdX --replace /dev/foo --with /dev/bar
-- Config file can be a directory in which case all "*.conf" files are
-  read in lexical order.
-  Default is to read /etc/mdadm.conf and then /etc/mdadm.conf.d
-  Thus
-      echo CREATE name=yes > /etc/mdadm.conf.d/names.conf
-  will also enable the use of named md devices.
-
-- Lots of improvements to DDF support including adding support for
-  RAID10 (thanks Martin Wilck).
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2.6
-  - There are no real stand-out fixes, just lots of little bits and pieces.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2.5
-  - This release primarily fixes a serious regression in 3.2.4.
-    This regression does *not* cause any risk to data.  It simply
-    means that adding a device with "--add" would sometime fail
-    when it should not.
-
-  - The fix also includes a couple of minor fixes such as making
-    the "--layout=preserve" option to "--grow" work again.
-
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2.4
-"--oneline" log of changes is below.  Some notable ones are:
-
- - --offroot argument to improve interactions between mdmon and initrd
- - --prefer argument to select which /dev names to display in some
-   circumstances.
- - relax restructions on when "--add" will be allowed
- - Fix bug with adding write-intent-bitmap to active array
- - Now defaults to "/run/mdadm" for storing run-time files.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2.3
-  - The largest single area of change is support for reshape of Intel
-    IMSM arrays (OnLine Capacity Explansion and Level Migration).
-  - Among other fixes, this now has a better chance of surviving if a
-    device fails during reshape.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2.2
-  - reshaping IMSM (Intel metadata) arrays is no longer 'experimental',
-    it should work properly and be largely compatible with IMSM drivers in
-    other platforms.
-  - --assume-clean can be used with --grow --size to avoid resyncing the
-    new part of the array.  This is only support with very new kernels.
-  - RAID0 arrays can have chunksize which is not a power of 2.  This has been
-    supported in the kernel for a while but is only now supprted by
-    mdadm.
-
-  - A new tool 'raid6check' is available which can check a RAID6 array,
-    or part of it, and report which device is most inconsistent with the
-    others if any stripe is inconsistent.   This is still under development
-    and does not have a man page yet.  If anyone tries it out and has any
-    questions or experience to report, they would be most welcome on
-    linux-raid@vger.kernel.org.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2.1
-  - policy framework
-     Policy can be expressed for moving spare devices between arrays, and
-     for how to handle hot-plugged devices.  This policy can be different
-     for devices plugged in to different controllers etc.
-     This, for example, allows a configuration where when a device is plugged
-     in it is immediately included in an md array as a hot spare and
-     possibly starts recovery immediately if an array is degraded.
-
-  - some understanding of mbr and gpt paritition tables
-     This is primarly to support the new hot-plug support.  If a
-     device is plugged in and policy suggests it should have a partition table,
-     the partition table will be copied from a suitably similar device, and
-     then the partitions will hot-plug and can then be added to md arrays.
-
-  - "--incremental --remove" can remember where a device was removed from
-    so if a device gets plugged back in the same place, special policy applies
-    to it, allowing it to be included in an array even if a general hotplug
-    will not be included.
-
-  - enhanced reshape options, including growing a RAID0 by converting to RAID4,
-    restriping, and converting back.  Also convertions between RAID0 and
-    RAID10 and between RAID1 and RAID10 are possible (with a suitably recent
-    kernel).
-
-  - spare migration for IMSM arrays.
-     Spare migration can now work across 'containers' using non-native metadata
-     and specifically Intel's IMSM arrays support spare migrations.
-
-  - OLCE and level migration for Intel IMSM arrays.
-     OnLine Capacity Expansion and level migration (e.g. RAID0 -> RAID5) is
-     supported for Intel Matrix Storage Manager arrays.
-     This support is currently 'experimental' for technical reasons.  It can
-     be enabled with "export MDADM_EXPERIMENTAL=1"
-
-  - avoid including wayward devices
-     If you split a RAID1, mount the two halves as two separate degraded RAID1s,
-     and then later bring the two back together, it is possible that the md
-     metadata won't properly show that one must over-ride the other.
-     mdadm now does extra checking to detect this possibilty and avoid
-     potentially corrupting data.
-
-  - remove any possible confusion between similar options.
-     e.g. --brief and --bitmap were mapped to 'b' and mdadm wouldn't
-     notice if one was used where the other was expected.
-
-  - allow K,M,G suffixes on chunk sizes
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.2
- - By far the most significant change in this release related to the
-   management of reshaping arrays.  This code has been substantially
-   re-written so that it can work with 'externally managed metadata' -
-   Intel's IMSM in particular.  We now support level migration and
-   OnLine Capacity Expansion on these arrays.
- - Policy framework.
-   Various policy statements can be made in the mdadm.conf to guide
-   the behaviour of mdadm, particular with regards to how new devices
-   are treated by "mdadm -I".
-   Depending on the 'action' associated with a device (identified by
-   its 'path') such need devices can be automatically re-added to and
-   existing array that they previously fell out off, or automatically
-   added as a spare if they appear to contain no data.
-
- - mdadm now has a limited understanding of partition tables.  This
-   allows the policy framework to make decisions about partitioned
-   devices as well.
-
- - --incremental --remove can be told what --path the device was on,
-   and this info will be recorded so that another device appearing at
-   the same physical location can be preferentially added to the same
-   array (provides the spare-same-slot action policy applied to the
-   path).
-
- - A new flags "--invalid-backup" flag is available in --assemble
-   mode.  This can be used to re-assemble an array which was stopping
-   in the middle of a reshape, and for which the 'backup file' is no
-   longer available or is corrupted.  The array may have some
-   corruption in it at the point where reshape was up to, but at least
-   the rest of the array will become available.
-
-
- - Various internal restructuring - more is needed.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.1.5
-  - Fixes for v1.x metadata on big-endian machines.
-  - man page improvements
-  - Improve '--detail --export' when run on partitions of an md array.
-  - Fix regression with removing 'failed' or 'detached' devices.
-  - Fixes for "--assemble --force" in various unusual cases.
-  - Allow '-Y' to mean --export.  This was documented but not implemented.
-  - Various fixed for handling 'ddf' metadata.  This is now more reliable
-    but could benefit from more interoperability testing.
-  - Correctly list subarrays of a container in "--detail" output.
-  - Improve checks on whether the requested number of devices is supported
-    by the metadata - both for --create and --grow.
-  - Don't remove partitions from a device that is being included in an
-    array until we are fully committed to including it.
-  - Allow "--assemble --update=no-bitmap" so an array with a corrupt
-    bitmap can still be assembled.
-  - Don't allow --add to succeed if it looks like a "--re-add" is probably
-    wanted, but cannot succeed.  This avoids inadvertently turning
-    devices into spares when an array is failed.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.1.4
-  Two fixes related to configs that aren't using udev:
-   -    Don't remove md devices which 'standard' names on --stop
-   -    Allow dev_open to work on read-only /dev
-  And fixed regressions:
-   -    Allow --incremental to add spares to an array
-   -    Accept --no-degraded as a deprecated option rather than
-            throwing an error
-   -    Return correct success status when --incrmental assembling
-        a container which does not yet have enough devices.
-   -    Don't link mdadm with pthreads, only mdmon needs it.
-   -    Fix compiler warning due to bad use of snprintf
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.1.3
-   -    mapfile now lives in a fixed location which default to
-        /dev/.mdadm/map but can be changed at compile time.  This
-	location is choses and most distros provide it during early
-	boot and preserve it through.  As long a /dev exists and is
-	writable, /dev/.mdadm will be created.
-	Other files file communication with mdmon live here too.
-	This fixes a bug reported by Debian and Gentoo users where
-	udev would spin in early-boot.
-   -    IMSM and DDF metadata will not be recognised on partitions
-        as they should only be used on whole-disks.
-   -    Various overflows causes by 2G drives have been addressed.
-   -    A subarray of an IMSM contain can now be killed with
-        --kill-subarray.  Also subarrays can be renamed with
-	--update-subarray
-   -    -If (or --incremental --fail) can be used  from udev to
-        fail and remove from all arrays a device which has been
-	unplugged from the system.  i.e. hot-unplug-support.
-   -    "mdadm /dev/mdX --re-add missing" will look for any device
-        that looks like it should be a member of /dev/mdX but isn't
-	and will automatically --re-add it
-   -    Now compile with -Wextra to get extra warnings.
-   -    Lots of minor bug fixes, documentation improvements, etcc
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.1.2
-   -    The default metadata has change again (sorry about that).
-        It is now v1.2 and will hopefully stay that way.  It turned
-        out there with boot-block issues with v1.1 which make it
-        unsuitable for a default, though in many cases it is still
-        suitable to use.
-   -    Stopping a container is not permitted when members are still
-        active
-   -    Add 'homehost' to the valid words for the "AUTO" config file
-        line.  When followed by "-all", this causes mdadm to
-        auto-assemble any array belonging to this host, but not
-        auto-assemble anything else.
-   -    Fix some bugs with "--grow --chunksize=" for changing chunksize.
-   -    VAR_RUN can be easily changed at compile time just like ALT_RUN.
-        This gives distros more flexability in how to manage the
-        pid and sock files that mdmon needs.
-   -    Various mdmon fixes
-   -    Alway make bitmap 4K-aligned if at all possible.
-   -    If mdadm.conf lists arrays which have inter-dependencies,
-        the previously had to be listed in the "right" order.  Now
-        any order should work.
-   -    Fix --force assembly of v1.x arrays which are in the process
-        of recovering.
-   -    Add section on 'scrubbing' to 'md' man page.
-   -    Various command-line-option parsing improvements.
-   -    ... and lots of other bug fixes.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.1.1
-   -    Multiple fixes for new --grow levels including fixes for
-	serious data corruption problems.
-   -    Change default metadata to v1.1
-   -    Change default chunk size to 512K
-   -    Change default bitmap chunk size to 64Meg
-   -    When --re-add is used, don't fall back to
-	--add if --re-add fails as this can destroy data.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.1
-   -    Support --grow to change the layout of RAID4/5/6
-   -    Support --grow to change the chunksize of raid 4/5/6
-   -    Support --grow to change level from RAID1 -> RAID5 -> RAID6 and
-        back.
-   -    Support --grow to reduce the number of devices in RAID4/5/6.
-   -    Support restart of these grow options which assembling an array
-	which is partially grown.
-   -    Assorted tests of this code, and of different RAID6 layouts.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.0.3
-   -    Improvements for creating arrays giving just a name, like 'foo',
-	rather than the full '/dev/md/foo'.
-   -    Improvements for assembling member arrays of containers.
-   -    Improvements to test suite
-   -    Add option to change increment for RebuildNN messages reported
-	by "mdadm --monitor"
-   -    Improvements to mdmon 'hand-over' from initrd to final root.
-   -    Handle merging of devices that have left an IMSM array and are
-	being re-incorporated.
-   -    Add missing space in "--detail --brief" output.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.0.2
-   -    Fix crash when hosthost is not set, as often happens in
-	early boot.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.0.1
-   -    Fix various segfaults
-   -    Fixed for --examine with containers
-   -    Lots of other little fixes.
-
-Changes Prior to release 3.0
-   -    Support for externally managed metadata, specifically DDF and IMSM.
-   -    Depend on udev to create entries in /dev, rather than creating them
-	ourselves.
-   -    remove --auto-update-home-hosts
-   -    new config file line "auto"
-   -    new "<ignore>" and "any" options for "homehost"
-   -    numerous bug fixes and minor enhancements.
diff --git a/Create.c b/Create.c
index 8082f54..d94253b 100644
--- a/Create.c
+++ b/Create.c
@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@
 #include	<sys/signalfd.h>
 #include	<sys/wait.h>
 
+#ifndef FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE
+#define FALLOC_FL_ZERO_RANGE 16
+#endif
+
 static int round_size_and_verify(unsigned long long *size, int chunk)
 {
 	if (*size == 0)
@@ -279,8 +283,10 @@ static int add_disk_to_super(int mdfd, struct shape *s, struct context *c,
 			       dv->devname);
 			return 1;
 		}
-		if (!fstat_is_blkdev(fd, dv->devname, &rdev))
+		if (!fstat_is_blkdev(fd, dv->devname, &rdev)) {
+			close(fd);
 			return 1;
+		}
 		info->disk.major = major(rdev);
 		info->disk.minor = minor(rdev);
 	}
@@ -289,6 +295,7 @@ static int add_disk_to_super(int mdfd, struct shape *s, struct context *c,
 	if (st->ss->add_to_super(st, &info->disk, fd, dv->devname,
 				 dv->data_offset)) {
 		ioctl(mdfd, STOP_ARRAY, NULL);
+		close(fd);
 		return 1;
 	}
 	st->ss->getinfo_super(st, info, NULL);
@@ -297,6 +304,7 @@ static int add_disk_to_super(int mdfd, struct shape *s, struct context *c,
 		*zero_pid = write_zeroes_fork(fd, s, st, dv);
 		if (*zero_pid <= 0) {
 			ioctl(mdfd, STOP_ARRAY, NULL);
+			close(fd);
 			return 1;
 		}
 	}
@@ -493,6 +501,7 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 	 */
 	int mdfd;
 	unsigned long long minsize = 0, maxsize = 0;
+	dev_policy_t *custom_pols = NULL;
 	char *mindisc = NULL;
 	char *maxdisc = NULL;
 	char *name = ident->name;
@@ -584,6 +593,9 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 				first_missing = subdevs * 2;
 				second_missing = subdevs * 2;
 				insert_point = subdevs * 2;
+
+				if (mddev_test_and_add_drive_policies(st, &custom_pols, fd, 1))
+					exit(1);
 			}
 		}
 		if (fd >= 0)
@@ -735,7 +747,7 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 			close(dfd);
 			exit(2);
 		}
-		close(dfd);
+
 		info.array.working_disks++;
 		if (dnum < s->raiddisks && dv->disposition != 'j')
 			info.array.active_disks++;
@@ -808,6 +820,11 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 			}
 		}
 
+		if (drive_test_and_add_policies(st, &custom_pols, dfd, 1))
+			exit(1);
+
+		close(dfd);
+
 		if (dv->disposition == 'j')
 			goto skip_size_check;  /* skip write journal for size check */
 
@@ -882,6 +899,7 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 			close(fd);
 		}
 	}
+
 	if (missing_disks == dnum && !have_container) {
 		pr_err("Subdevs can't be all missing\n");
 		return 1;
@@ -1136,26 +1154,30 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 		goto abort_locked;
 	}
 
-	if (did_default && c->verbose >= 0) {
+	if (did_default) {
 		if (is_subarray(info.text_version)) {
-			char devnm[32];
-			char *ep;
+			char devnm[MD_NAME_MAX];
 			struct mdinfo *mdi;
 
-			strncpy(devnm, info.text_version+1, 32);
-			devnm[31] = 0;
-			ep = strchr(devnm, '/');
-			if (ep)
-				*ep = 0;
+			sysfs_get_container_devnm(&info, devnm);
+
+			mdi = sysfs_read(-1, devnm, GET_VERSION | GET_DEVS);
+			if (!mdi) {
+				pr_err("Cannot open sysfs for container %s\n", devnm);
+				goto abort_locked;
+			}
+
+			if (sysfs_test_and_add_drive_policies(st, &custom_pols, mdi, 1))
+				goto abort_locked;
 
-			mdi = sysfs_read(-1, devnm, GET_VERSION);
+			if (c->verbose >= 0)
+				pr_info("Creating array inside %s container /dev/%s\n",
+					mdi->text_version, devnm);
 
-			pr_info("Creating array inside %s container %s\n",
-				mdi?mdi->text_version:"managed", devnm);
 			sysfs_free(mdi);
-		} else
-			pr_info("Defaulting to version %s metadata\n",
-				info.text_version);
+		} else if (c->verbose >= 0) {
+			pr_info("Defaulting to version %s metadata\n", info.text_version);
+		}
 	}
 
 	map_update(&map, fd2devnm(mdfd), info.text_version,
@@ -1325,6 +1347,8 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 	udev_unblock();
 	close(mdfd);
 	sysfs_uevent(&info, "change");
+	dev_policy_free(custom_pols);
+
 	return 0;
 
  abort:
@@ -1336,5 +1360,7 @@ int Create(struct supertype *st, struct mddev_ident *ident, int subdevs,
 
 	if (mdfd >= 0)
 		close(mdfd);
+
+	dev_policy_free(custom_pols);
 	return 1;
 }
diff --git a/Detail.c b/Detail.c
index aaa3dd6..55a086d 100644
--- a/Detail.c
+++ b/Detail.c
@@ -49,6 +49,30 @@ static int add_device(const char *dev, char ***p_devices,
 	return n_devices + 1;
 }
 
+/**
+ * detail_fname_from_uuid() - generate uuid string with special super1 handling.
+ * @mp: map entry to parse.
+ * @buf: buf to write.
+ *
+ * Hack to workaround an issue with super1 superblocks. It swapuuid set in order for assembly
+ * to work, but can't have it set if we want this printout to match all the other uuid printouts
+ * in super1.c, so we force swapuuid to 1 to make our printout match the rest of super1.
+ *
+ * Always convert uuid if host is big endian.
+ */
+char *detail_fname_from_uuid(struct map_ent *mp, char *buf)
+{
+#if __BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
+	bool swap = true;
+#else
+	bool swap = false;
+#endif
+	if (strncmp(mp->metadata, "1.", 2) == 0)
+		swap = true;
+
+	return __fname_from_uuid(mp->uuid, swap, buf, ':');
+}
+
 int Detail(char *dev, struct context *c)
 {
 	/*
@@ -226,6 +250,9 @@ int Detail(char *dev, struct context *c)
 		str = map_num(pers, array.level);
 
 	if (c->export) {
+		char nbuf[64];
+		struct map_ent *mp = NULL, *map = NULL;
+
 		if (array.raid_disks) {
 			if (str)
 				printf("MD_LEVEL=%s\n", str);
@@ -247,32 +274,22 @@ int Detail(char *dev, struct context *c)
 				       array.minor_version);
 		}
 
-		if (st && st->sb && info) {
-			char nbuf[64];
-			struct map_ent *mp, *map = NULL;
-
-			fname_from_uuid(st, info, nbuf, ':');
-			printf("MD_UUID=%s\n", nbuf + 5);
+		if (info)
 			mp = map_by_uuid(&map, info->uuid);
+		if (!mp)
+			mp = map_by_devnm(&map, fd2devnm(fd));
 
-			if (mp && mp->path && strncmp(mp->path, DEV_MD_DIR, DEV_MD_DIR_LEN) == 0)
+		if (mp) {
+			detail_fname_from_uuid(mp, nbuf);
+			printf("MD_UUID=%s\n", nbuf + 5);
+			if (mp->path && strncmp(mp->path, DEV_MD_DIR, DEV_MD_DIR_LEN) == 0)
 				printf("MD_DEVNAME=%s\n", mp->path + DEV_MD_DIR_LEN);
+		}
 
+		map_free(map);
+		if (st && st->sb) {
 			if (st->ss->export_detail_super)
 				st->ss->export_detail_super(st);
-			map_free(map);
-		} else {
-			struct map_ent *mp, *map = NULL;
-			char nbuf[64];
-			mp = map_by_devnm(&map, fd2devnm(fd));
-			if (mp) {
-				__fname_from_uuid(mp->uuid, 0, nbuf, ':');
-				printf("MD_UUID=%s\n", nbuf+5);
-			}
-			if (mp && mp->path && strncmp(mp->path, DEV_MD_DIR, DEV_MD_DIR_LEN) == 0)
-				printf("MD_DEVNAME=%s\n", mp->path + DEV_MD_DIR_LEN);
-
-			map_free(map);
 		}
 		if (!c->no_devices && sra) {
 			struct mdinfo *mdi;
diff --git a/Grow.c b/Grow.c
index f95dae8..074f199 100644
--- a/Grow.c
+++ b/Grow.c
@@ -2085,9 +2085,10 @@ int Grow_reshape(char *devname, int fd,
 			if (!mdmon_running(st->container_devnm))
 				start_mdmon(st->container_devnm);
 			ping_monitor(container);
-			if (mdmon_running(st->container_devnm) &&
-					st->update_tail == NULL)
-				st->update_tail = &st->updates;
+			if (mdmon_running(st->container_devnm) == false) {
+				pr_err("No mdmon found. Grow cannot continue.\n");
+				goto release;
+			}
 		}
 
 		if (s->size == MAX_SIZE)
@@ -2097,11 +2098,7 @@ int Grow_reshape(char *devname, int fd,
 			/* got truncated to 32bit, write to
 			 * component_size instead
 			 */
-			if (sra)
-				rv = sysfs_set_num(sra, NULL,
-						   "component_size", s->size);
-			else
-				rv = -1;
+			rv = sysfs_set_num(sra, NULL, "component_size", s->size);
 		} else {
 			rv = md_set_array_info(fd, &array);
 
@@ -3048,6 +3045,8 @@ static int reshape_array(char *container, int fd, char *devname,
 		dprintf("Cannot get array information.\n");
 		goto release;
 	}
+	if (st->update_tail == NULL)
+		st->update_tail = &st->updates;
 	if (array.level == 0 && info->component_size == 0) {
 		get_dev_size(fd, NULL, &array_size);
 		info->component_size = array_size / array.raid_disks;
@@ -4414,19 +4413,8 @@ static void validate(int afd, int bfd, unsigned long long offset)
 		lseek64(afd, __le64_to_cpu(bsb2.arraystart)*512, 0);
 		if ((unsigned long long)read(afd, abuf, len) != len)
 			fail("read first from array failed");
-		if (memcmp(bbuf, abuf, len) != 0) {
-#if 0
-			int i;
-			printf("offset=%llu len=%llu\n",
-			       (unsigned long long)__le64_to_cpu(bsb2.arraystart)*512, len);
-			for (i=0; i<len; i++)
-				if (bbuf[i] != abuf[i]) {
-					printf("first diff byte %d\n", i);
-					break;
-				}
-#endif
+		if (memcmp(bbuf, abuf, len) != 0)
 			fail("data1 compare failed");
-		}
 	}
 	if (bsb2.length2) {
 		unsigned long long len = __le64_to_cpu(bsb2.length2)*512;
@@ -5152,9 +5140,7 @@ int Grow_continue_command(char *devname, int fd,
 			start_mdmon(container);
 		ping_monitor(container);
 
-		if (mdmon_running(container))
-			st->update_tail = &st->updates;
-		else {
+		if (mdmon_running(container) == false) {
 			pr_err("No mdmon found. Grow cannot continue.\n");
 			ret_val = 1;
 			goto Grow_continue_command_exit;
diff --git a/Incremental.c b/Incremental.c
index 30c07c0..83db071 100644
--- a/Incremental.c
+++ b/Incremental.c
@@ -833,6 +833,54 @@ container_members_max_degradation(struct map_ent *map, struct map_ent *me)
 	return max_degraded;
 }
 
+/**
+ * incremental_external_test_spare_criteria() - helper to test spare criteria.
+ * @st: supertype, must be not NULL, it is duplicated here.
+ * @container_devnm: devnm of the container.
+ * @disk_fd: file descriptor of device to tested.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * The function is used on new drive verification path to check if it can be added to external
+ * container. To test spare criteria, metadata must be loaded. It duplicates super to not mess in
+ * original one.
+ * Function is executed if superblock supports get_spare_criteria(), otherwise success is returned.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t incremental_external_test_spare_criteria(struct supertype *st, char *container_devnm,
+							int disk_fd, int verbose)
+{
+	mdadm_status_t rv = MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	char container_devname[PATH_MAX];
+	struct spare_criteria sc = {0};
+	struct supertype *dup;
+
+	if (!st->ss->get_spare_criteria)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	dup = dup_super(st);
+	snprintf(container_devname, PATH_MAX, "/dev/%s", container_devnm);
+
+	if (dup->ss->get_spare_criteria(dup, container_devname, &sc) != 0) {
+		if (verbose > 1)
+			pr_err("Failed to get spare criteria for %s\n", container_devname);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (!disk_fd_matches_criteria(dup, disk_fd, &sc)) {
+		if (verbose > 1)
+			pr_err("Disk does not match spare criteria for %s\n", container_devname);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	rv = MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+out:
+	dev_policy_free(sc.pols);
+	dup->ss->free_super(dup);
+	free(dup);
+
+	return rv;
+}
+
 static int array_try_spare(char *devname, int *dfdp, struct dev_policy *pol,
 			   struct map_ent *target, int bare,
 			   struct supertype *st, int verbose)
@@ -873,8 +921,7 @@ static int array_try_spare(char *devname, int *dfdp, struct dev_policy *pol,
 		struct supertype *st2;
 		struct domainlist *dl = NULL;
 		struct mdinfo *sra;
-		unsigned long long devsize, freesize = 0;
-		struct spare_criteria sc = {0, 0};
+		unsigned long long freesize = 0;
 
 		if (is_subarray(mp->metadata))
 			continue;
@@ -925,34 +972,19 @@ static int array_try_spare(char *devname, int *dfdp, struct dev_policy *pol,
 		if (sra->array.failed_disks == -1)
 			sra->array.failed_disks = container_members_max_degradation(map, mp);
 
-		get_dev_size(dfd, NULL, &devsize);
 		if (sra->component_size == 0) {
-			/* true for containers, here we must read superblock
-			 * to obtain minimum spare size */
-			struct supertype *st3 = dup_super(st2);
-			int mdfd = open_dev(mp->devnm);
-			if (mdfd < 0) {
-				free(st3);
+			/* true for containers */
+			if (incremental_external_test_spare_criteria(st2, mp->devnm, dfd, verbose))
 				goto next;
-			}
-			if (st3->ss->load_container &&
-			    !st3->ss->load_container(st3, mdfd, mp->path)) {
-				if (st3->ss->get_spare_criteria)
-					st3->ss->get_spare_criteria(st3, &sc);
-				st3->ss->free_super(st3);
-			}
-			free(st3);
-			close(mdfd);
 		}
-		if ((sra->component_size > 0 &&
-		     st2->ss->validate_geometry(st2, sra->array.level, sra->array.layout,
+
+		if (sra->component_size > 0 &&
+		    st2->ss->validate_geometry(st2, sra->array.level, sra->array.layout,
 						sra->array.raid_disks, &sra->array.chunk_size,
 						sra->component_size,
 						sra->devs ? sra->devs->data_offset : INVALID_SECTORS,
 						devname, &freesize, sra->consistency_policy,
-						0) &&
-		     freesize < sra->component_size) ||
-		    (sra->component_size == 0 && devsize < sc.min_size)) {
+						0) && freesize < sra->component_size) {
 			if (verbose > 1)
 				pr_err("not adding %s to %s as it is too small\n",
 					devname, mp->path);
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS.md b/MAINTAINERS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c79ba8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MAINTAINERS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Maintainer tools
+
+Useful tools used in daily routines:
+- [checkpatch](https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/checkpatch.html)
+- [kup](https://korg.docs.kernel.org/kup.html)
+- [Auto-publishing](https://korg.docs.kernel.org/kup.html#auto-publishing-with-git-archive-signer)
+- [b4](https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/)
+
+# Checklist before applying patch
+
+We don't have CI testing yet, so all those steps must be performed manually:
+- Style check with [checkpatch](https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/checkpatch.html):
+
+  This is the current code style follows. We are not strict to all rules. It must be run
+  by **checkpatch --no-tree**, see README.md.
+
+- [Commit style](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/submitting-patches.html):
+
+  It doesn't need to be followed as strictly as is in kernel but changes should be logically
+  separated. Submitter should care at least to mention "It is used in next patches" if unused
+  externs/files are added in patch. We love: *Reported-by:*, *Suggested-by:*, *Fixes:* tags.
+
+- Compilation, ideally on various gcc versions.
+- Mdadm test suite execution.
+- Consider requesting new tests from submitter, especially for new functionalities.
+- Ensure that maintainer *sign-off* is added, before pushing.
+
+# Making a release
+
+Assuming that maintainer is certain that release is safe, following steps must be done:
+
+- Update versions strings in release commit, please refer to previous releases for examples.
+
+- Create GPG signed tag and push it to repo. Use same format as was used previously, prefixed by
+  **mdadm-**, e.g. **mdadm-3.1.2**, **mdadm-4.1**.
+
+- [Auto-publishing](https://korg.docs.kernel.org/kup.html#auto-publishing-with-git-archive-signer):
+
+  Adopt script to our release tag model. When ready, push signed note to repository. If it is done
+  correctly, then *(sig)* is added to the package automatically generated by kernel.org automation.
+  There is no need to upload archive manually.
+
+- Update CHANGELOG.md.
+- Write "ANNOUNCE" mail to linux-raid@kernel.org to notify community.
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index cbdba49..7c221a8 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ OBJS = mdadm.o config.o policy.o mdstat.o  ReadMe.o uuid.o util.o maps.o lib.o u
        mdopen.o super0.o super1.o super-ddf.o super-intel.o bitmap.o \
        super-mbr.o super-gpt.o \
        restripe.o sysfs.o sha1.o mapfile.o crc32.o sg_io.o msg.o xmalloc.o \
-       platform-intel.o probe_roms.o crc32c.o
+       platform-intel.o probe_roms.o crc32c.o drive_encryption.o
 
 CHECK_OBJS = restripe.o uuid.o sysfs.o maps.o lib.o xmalloc.o dlink.o
 
@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ MON_OBJS = mdmon.o monitor.o managemon.o uuid.o util.o maps.o mdstat.o sysfs.o c
 	Kill.o sg_io.o dlink.o ReadMe.o super-intel.o \
 	super-mbr.o super-gpt.o \
 	super-ddf.o sha1.o crc32.o msg.o bitmap.o xmalloc.o \
-	platform-intel.o probe_roms.o crc32c.o
+	platform-intel.o probe_roms.o crc32c.o drive_encryption.o
 
 MON_SRCS = $(patsubst %.o,%.c,$(MON_OBJS))
 
diff --git a/Manage.c b/Manage.c
index 30302ac..96e5ee5 100644
--- a/Manage.c
+++ b/Manage.c
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ int Manage_stop(char *devname, int fd, int verbose, int will_retry)
 	struct map_ent *map = NULL;
 	struct mdinfo *mdi;
 	char devnm[32];
-	char container[32];
+	char container[MD_NAME_MAX] = {0};
 	int err;
 	int count;
 	char buf[SYSFS_MAX_BUF_SIZE];
@@ -192,15 +192,9 @@ int Manage_stop(char *devname, int fd, int verbose, int will_retry)
 	 * to stop is probably a bad idea.
 	 */
 	mdi = sysfs_read(fd, NULL, GET_LEVEL|GET_COMPONENT|GET_VERSION);
-	if (mdi && is_subarray(mdi->text_version)) {
-		char *sl;
-		strncpy(container, mdi->text_version+1, sizeof(container));
-		container[sizeof(container)-1] = 0;
-		sl = strchr(container, '/');
-		if (sl)
-			*sl = 0;
-	} else
-		container[0] = 0;
+	if (mdi && is_subarray(mdi->text_version))
+		sysfs_get_container_devnm(mdi, container);
+
 	close(fd);
 	count = 5;
 	while (((fd = ((devname[0] == '/')
@@ -695,6 +689,99 @@ skip_re_add:
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/**
+ * manage_add_external() - Add disk to external container.
+ * @st: external supertype pointer, must not be NULL, superblock is released here.
+ * @fd: container file descriptor, must not have O_EXCL mode.
+ * @disk_fd: device to add file descriptor.
+ * @disk_name: name of the device to add.
+ * @disc: disk info.
+ *
+ * Superblock is released here because any open fd with O_EXCL will block sysfs_add_disk().
+ */
+mdadm_status_t manage_add_external(struct supertype *st, int fd, char *disk_name,
+				   mdu_disk_info_t *disc)
+{
+	mdadm_status_t rv = MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	char container_devpath[MD_NAME_MAX];
+	struct dev_policy *pols = NULL;
+	struct mdinfo new_mdi;
+	struct mdinfo *sra = NULL;
+	int container_fd;
+	int disk_fd = -1;
+
+	snprintf(container_devpath, MD_NAME_MAX, "%s", fd2devnm(fd));
+
+	container_fd = open_dev_excl(container_devpath);
+	if (!is_fd_valid(container_fd)) {
+		pr_err("Failed to get exclusive access to container %s\n", container_devpath);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/* Check if metadata handler is able to accept the drive */
+	if (!st->ss->validate_geometry(st, LEVEL_CONTAINER, 0, 1, NULL, 0, 0, disk_name, NULL,
+				       0, 1))
+		goto out;
+
+	if (mddev_test_and_add_drive_policies(st, &pols, container_fd, 1))
+		goto out;
+
+	Kill(disk_name, NULL, 0, -1, 0);
+
+	disk_fd = dev_open(disk_name, O_RDWR | O_EXCL | O_DIRECT);
+	if (!is_fd_valid(disk_fd)) {
+		pr_err("Failed to exclusively open %s\n", disk_name);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	if (drive_test_and_add_policies(st, &pols, disk_fd, 1))
+		goto out;
+
+	if (st->ss->add_to_super(st, disc, disk_fd, disk_name, INVALID_SECTORS))
+		goto out;
+
+	if (!mdmon_running(st->container_devnm))
+		st->ss->sync_metadata(st);
+
+	sra = sysfs_read(container_fd, NULL, 0);
+	if (!sra) {
+		pr_err("Failed to read sysfs for %s\n", disk_name);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
+	sra->array.level = LEVEL_CONTAINER;
+	/* Need to set data_offset and component_size */
+	st->ss->getinfo_super(st, &new_mdi, NULL);
+	new_mdi.disk.major = disc->major;
+	new_mdi.disk.minor = disc->minor;
+	new_mdi.recovery_start = 0;
+
+	st->ss->free_super(st);
+
+	if (sysfs_add_disk(sra, &new_mdi, 0) != 0) {
+		pr_err("Failed to add %s to container %s\n", disk_name, container_devpath);
+		goto out;
+	}
+	ping_monitor(container_devpath);
+	rv = MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+out:
+	close(container_fd);
+	dev_policy_free(pols);
+
+	if (sra)
+		sysfs_free(sra);
+
+	if (rv != MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS && is_fd_valid(disk_fd))
+		/* Metadata handler records this descriptor, so release it only on failure. */
+		close(disk_fd);
+
+	if (st->sb)
+		st->ss->free_super(st);
+
+	return rv;
+}
+
 int Manage_add(int fd, int tfd, struct mddev_dev *dv,
 	       struct supertype *tst, mdu_array_info_t *array,
 	       int force, int verbose, char *devname,
@@ -794,25 +881,23 @@ int Manage_add(int fd, int tfd, struct mddev_dev *dv,
 		 * simply re-add it.
 		 */
 
-		if (array->not_persistent == 0) {
+		if (array->not_persistent == 0 && dv->disposition != 'S') {
+			int rv = 0;
+
 			dev_st = dup_super(tst);
 			dev_st->ss->load_super(dev_st, tfd, NULL);
-			if (dev_st->sb && dv->disposition != 'S') {
-				int rv;
 
-				rv = attempt_re_add(fd, tfd, dv, dev_st, tst,
-						    rdev, update, devname,
-						    verbose, array);
-				dev_st->ss->free_super(dev_st);
-				if (rv) {
-					free(dev_st);
-					return rv;
-				}
-			}
-			if (dev_st) {
+			if (dev_st->sb) {
+				rv = attempt_re_add(fd, tfd, dv, dev_st, tst, rdev, update,
+						    devname, verbose, array);
+
 				dev_st->ss->free_super(dev_st);
-				free(dev_st);
 			}
+
+			free(dev_st);
+
+			if (rv)
+				return rv;
 		}
 		if (dv->disposition == 'M') {
 			if (verbose > 0)
@@ -968,68 +1053,8 @@ int Manage_add(int fd, int tfd, struct mddev_dev *dv,
 	if (dv->failfast == FlagSet)
 		disc.state |= (1 << MD_DISK_FAILFAST);
 	if (tst->ss->external) {
-		/* add a disk
-		 * to an external metadata container */
-		struct mdinfo new_mdi;
-		struct mdinfo *sra;
-		int container_fd;
-		char devnm[32];
-		int dfd;
-
-		strcpy(devnm, fd2devnm(fd));
-
-		container_fd = open_dev_excl(devnm);
-		if (container_fd < 0) {
-			pr_err("add failed for %s: could not get exclusive access to container\n",
-			       dv->devname);
-			tst->ss->free_super(tst);
+		if (manage_add_external(tst, fd, dv->devname, &disc) != MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS)
 			goto unlock;
-		}
-
-		/* Check if metadata handler is able to accept the drive */
-		if (!tst->ss->validate_geometry(tst, LEVEL_CONTAINER, 0, 1, NULL,
-		    0, 0, dv->devname, NULL, 0, 1)) {
-			close(container_fd);
-			goto unlock;
-		}
-
-		Kill(dv->devname, NULL, 0, -1, 0);
-		dfd = dev_open(dv->devname, O_RDWR | O_EXCL|O_DIRECT);
-		if (tst->ss->add_to_super(tst, &disc, dfd,
-					  dv->devname, INVALID_SECTORS)) {
-			close(dfd);
-			close(container_fd);
-			goto unlock;
-		}
-		if (!mdmon_running(tst->container_devnm))
-			tst->ss->sync_metadata(tst);
-
-		sra = sysfs_read(container_fd, NULL, 0);
-		if (!sra) {
-			pr_err("add failed for %s: sysfs_read failed\n",
-			       dv->devname);
-			close(container_fd);
-			tst->ss->free_super(tst);
-			goto unlock;
-		}
-		sra->array.level = LEVEL_CONTAINER;
-		/* Need to set data_offset and component_size */
-		tst->ss->getinfo_super(tst, &new_mdi, NULL);
-		new_mdi.disk.major = disc.major;
-		new_mdi.disk.minor = disc.minor;
-		new_mdi.recovery_start = 0;
-		/* Make sure fds are closed as they are O_EXCL which
-		 * would block add_disk */
-		tst->ss->free_super(tst);
-		if (sysfs_add_disk(sra, &new_mdi, 0) != 0) {
-			pr_err("add new device to external metadata failed for %s\n", dv->devname);
-			close(container_fd);
-			sysfs_free(sra);
-			goto unlock;
-		}
-		ping_monitor(devnm);
-		sysfs_free(sra);
-		close(container_fd);
 	} else {
 		tst->ss->free_super(tst);
 		if (ioctl(fd, ADD_NEW_DISK, &disc)) {
diff --git a/Monitor.c b/Monitor.c
index 824a69f..9b016bc 100644
--- a/Monitor.c
+++ b/Monitor.c
@@ -451,17 +451,19 @@ static int check_one_sharer(int scan)
 		return 2;
 	}
 
-	if (access(AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH, F_OK) != 0)
-		return 0;
+	fp = fopen(AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH, "r");
+	if (!fp) {
+		/* PID file does not exist */
+		if (errno == ENOENT)
+			return 0;
 
-	if (!is_file(AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH)) {
-		pr_err("%s is not a regular file.\n", AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH);
+		pr_err("Cannot open %s file.\n", AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH);
 		return 2;
 	}
 
-	fp = fopen(AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH, "r");
-	if (!fp) {
-		pr_err("Cannot open %s file.\n", AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH);
+	if (!is_file(AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH)) {
+		pr_err("%s is not a regular file.\n", AUTOREBUILD_PID_PATH);
+		fclose(fp);
 		return 2;
 	}
 
@@ -1006,34 +1008,6 @@ static int add_new_arrays(struct mdstat_ent *mdstat, struct state **statelist)
 	return new_found;
 }
 
-static int get_required_spare_criteria(struct state *st,
-				       struct spare_criteria *sc)
-{
-	int fd;
-
-	if (!st->metadata || !st->metadata->ss->get_spare_criteria) {
-		sc->min_size = 0;
-		sc->sector_size = 0;
-		return 0;
-	}
-
-	fd = open(st->devname, O_RDONLY);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		return 1;
-	if (st->metadata->ss->external)
-		st->metadata->ss->load_container(st->metadata, fd, st->devname);
-	else
-		st->metadata->ss->load_super(st->metadata, fd, st->devname);
-	close(fd);
-	if (!st->metadata->sb)
-		return 1;
-
-	st->metadata->ss->get_spare_criteria(st->metadata, sc);
-	st->metadata->ss->free_super(st->metadata);
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static int check_donor(struct state *from, struct state *to)
 {
 	struct state *sub;
@@ -1068,22 +1042,12 @@ static dev_t choose_spare(struct state *from, struct state *to,
 	for (d = from->raid; !dev && d < MAX_DISKS; d++) {
 		if (from->devid[d] > 0 && from->devstate[d] == 0) {
 			struct dev_policy *pol;
-			unsigned long long dev_size;
-			unsigned int dev_sector_size;
 
 			if (to->metadata->ss->external &&
 			    test_partition_from_id(from->devid[d]))
 				continue;
 
-			if (sc->min_size &&
-			    dev_size_from_id(from->devid[d], &dev_size) &&
-			    dev_size < sc->min_size)
-				continue;
-
-			if (sc->sector_size &&
-			    dev_sector_size_from_id(from->devid[d],
-						    &dev_sector_size) &&
-			    sc->sector_size != dev_sector_size)
+			if (devid_matches_criteria(to->metadata, from->devid[d], sc) == false)
 				continue;
 
 			pol = devid_policy(from->devid[d]);
@@ -1168,12 +1132,12 @@ static void try_spare_migration(struct state *statelist)
 {
 	struct state *from;
 	struct state *st;
-	struct spare_criteria sc;
 
 	link_containers_with_subarrays(statelist);
 	for (st = statelist; st; st = st->next)
 		if (st->active < st->raid && st->spare == 0 && !st->err) {
 			struct domainlist *domlist = NULL;
+			struct spare_criteria sc = {0};
 			int d;
 			struct state *to = st;
 
@@ -1186,8 +1150,11 @@ static void try_spare_migration(struct state *statelist)
 				/* member of a container */
 				to = to->parent;
 
-			if (get_required_spare_criteria(to, &sc))
-				continue;
+			if (to->metadata->ss->get_spare_criteria)
+				if (to->metadata->ss->get_spare_criteria(to->metadata, to->devname,
+									 &sc))
+					continue;
+
 			if (to->metadata->ss->external) {
 				/* We must make sure there is
 				 * no suitable spare in container already.
@@ -1228,6 +1195,7 @@ static void try_spare_migration(struct state *statelist)
 				}
 			}
 			domain_free(domlist);
+			dev_policy_free(sc.pols);
 		}
 }
 
diff --git a/README.initramfs b/README.initramfs
deleted file mode 100644
index c5fa668..0000000
--- a/README.initramfs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,122 +0,0 @@
-Assembling md arrays at boot time.
----------------------------------
-December 2005
-
-These notes apply to 2.6 kernels only and, in some cases,
-to 2.6.15 or later.
-
-Md arrays can be assembled at boot time using the 'autodetect' functionality
-which is triggered by storing components of an array in partitions of type
-'fd' - Linux Raid Autodetect.
-They can also be assembled by specifying the component devices in a
-kernel parameter such as
-  md=0,/dev/sda,/dev/sdb
-In this case, /dev/md0 will be assembled (because of the 0) from the listed
-devices.
-
-These mechanisms, while useful, do not provide complete functionality
-and are unlikely to be extended.  The preferred way to assemble md
-arrays at boot time is using 'mdadm'.  To assemble an array which
-contains the root filesystem, mdadm needs to be run before that
-filesystem is mounted, and so needs to be run from an initial-ram-fs.
-It is how this can work that is the primary focus of this document.
-
-It should be noted up front that only the array containing the root
-filesystem should be assembled from the initramfs.  Any other arrays
-should be assembled under the control of files on the main filesystem
-as this enhanced flexibility and maintainability.
-
-A minimal initramfs for assembling md arrays can be created using 3
-files and one directory.  These are:
-
-/bin           Directory
-/bin/mdadm     statically linked mdadm binary
-/bin/busybox   statically linked busybox binary
-/bin/sh        hard link to /bin/busybox
-/init          a shell script which call mdadm appropriately.
-
-An example init script is:
-
-==============================================
-#!/bin/sh
-
-echo 'Auto-assembling boot md array'
-mkdir /proc
-mount -t proc proc /proc
-if [ -n "$rootuuid" ]
-then arg=--uuid=$rootuuid
-elif [ -n "$mdminor" ]
-then arg=--super-minor=$mdminor
-else arg=--super-minor=0
-fi
-echo "Using $arg"
-mdadm -Acpartitions $arg --auto=part /dev/mda
-cd /
-mount /dev/mda1 /root ||  mount /dev/mda /root
-umount /proc
-cd /root
-exec chroot . /sbin/init < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>&1
-=============================================
-
-This could certainly be extended, or merged into a larger init script.
-Though tested and in production use, it is not presented here as
-"The Right Way" to do it, but as a useful example.
-Some key points are:
-
-  /proc needs to be mounted so that /proc/partitions can be accessed
-  by mdadm, and so that /proc/filesystems can be accessed by mount.
-
-  The uuid of the array can be passed in as a kernel parameter
-  (rootuuid).  As the kernel doesn't use this value, it is made available
-  in the environment for /init
-
-  If no uuid is given, we default to md0, (--super-minor=0) which is a
-  commonly used to store the root filesystem.  This may not work in
-  all situations.
-
-  We assemble the array as a partitionable array (/dev/mda) even if we
-  end up using the whole array.  There is no cost in using the partitionable
-  interface, and in this context it is simpler.
-
-  We try mounting both /dev/mda1 and /dev/mda as they are the most like
-  part of the array to contain the root filesystem.
-
-  The --auto flag is given to mdadm so that it will create /dev/md*
-  files automatically.  This is needed as /dev will not contain
-  and md files, and udev will not create them (as udev only created device
-  files after the device exists, and mdadm need the device file to create
-  the device).  Note that the created md files may not exist in /dev
-  of the mounted root filesystem.  This needs to be deal with separately
-  from mdadm - possibly using udev.
-
-  We do not need to create device files for the components which will
-  be assembled into /dev/mda.  mdadm finds the major/minor numbers from
-  /proc/partitions and creates a temporary /dev file if one doesn't already
-  exist.
-
-The script "mkinitramfs" which is included with the mdadm distribution
-can be used to create a minimal initramfs.  It creates a file called
-'init.cpio.gz' which can be specified as an 'initrd' to lilo or grub
-(or whatever boot loader is being used).
-
-
-
-
-Resume from an md array
------------------------
-
-If you want to make use of the suspend-to-disk/resume functionality in Linux,
-and want to have swap on an md array, you will need to assemble the array
-before resume is possible.
-However, because the array is active in the resumed image, you do not want
-anything written to any drives during the resume process, such as superblock
-updates or array resync.
-
-This can be achieved in 2.6.15-rc1 and later kernels using the
-'start_readonly' module parameter.
-Simply include the command
-  echo 1 > /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/start_ro
-before assembling the array with 'mdadm'.
-You can then echo
-  9:0
-or whatever is appropriate to /sys/power/resume to trigger the resume.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64f2ece
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+**mdadm** is a utility used to create and manage **software RAID** devices implemented through
+**Multiple devices driver (MD)** in kernel. It supports following RAID metadata formats:
+
+* [Linux native RAID](https://raid.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/RAID_superblock_formats):
+
+  Known as **native** or **native RAID**. First and default metadata format. Metadata management
+  is implemented in **MD driver**.
+
+* Matrix Storage Manager Support (no reference, metadata format documentation is proprietary).
+
+  Known as **IMSM**. Metadata format developed and maintained by **Intel®** as a part of **VROC**
+  solution. There are some functional differences between **native** and **imsm**. The most
+  important difference is that the metadata is managed from userspace.
+
+  **CAUTION:** **imsm** is compatible with **Intel RST**, however it is not officially supported.
+  You are using it on your own risk.
+
+* [Common RAID DDF Specification Revision](https://www.snia.org/sites/default/files/SNIA_DDF_Technical_Position_v2.0.pdf)
+
+    **IMPORTANT:** DDF is in **maintenance only** mode. There is no active development around it.
+    Please do not use it in new solutions.
+
+# How to Contribute
+
+ **mdadm** is hosted on [kernel.org](https://kernel.org/). You can access repository
+[here](https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/mdadm/mdadm.git).
+
+It is maintained similarly to kernel, using *mailing list*. Patches must be send through email.
+Please familiarize with general kernel
+[submitting patches](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/process/submitting-patches.html)
+documentation. Formatting, tags and commit message guidelines applies to **mdadm**.
+
+## Sending patches step-by-step
+
+To maximize change of patches being taken, follow this instruction when submitting:
+
+1. Create possibly logically separated commits and generate patches:
+
+   Use ``git format-patch --cover-letter --signoff -v <nr>`` to create patches:
+   * ``--cover-letter`` can be skipped if it is only one patch;
+   * ``--signoff`` adds sign-off tag;
+   * ``-v <nr>`` indicates review revision number, sender should increment it before resending.
+
+2. Check style of every patch with kernel
+   [checkpatch](https://docs.kernel.org/dev-tools/checkpatch.html) script:
+
+   It is important to keep same coding style that is why in **mdadm**
+   [kernel coding style](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html)
+   is preferred. ``checkpath --no-tree <patch_file>`` can be used to verify patches.
+   Following checkpatch issues can be ignored:
+   - New typedefs.
+   - comparing with *True/False*.
+   - kernel *MAINTAINERS* file warning.
+   - *extern* keyword in headers.
+
+3. Send patches using ``git send-mail --to=linux-raid@vger.kernel.org <cover-letter> <patch1> <patch2> (...)``
+
+# Maintainers
+
+It is good practice to add **mdadm maintainers** to recipients for patches:
+
+- Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>;
+- Mariusz Tkaczyk <mariusz.tkaczyk@linux.intel.com>;
+
+Adding **MD maintainers** could be reasonable, especially if patches may affect MD driver:
+
+- Song Liu <song@kernel.org>;
+- Yu Kuai <yukuai3@huawei.com>;
+
+# Reviewers
+
+**mdadm** utility is not part of kernel tree, so there is no certificated *Reviewers* list. Everyone
+can comment on mailing list, last decision (and merging) belongs to maintainers.
+
+# Minimal supported kernel version
+
+We do not support kernel versions below **v3.10**. Please be aware that maintainers may remove
+workarounds and fixes for legacy issues.
+
+# License
+
+It is released under the terms of the **GNU General Public License version 2** as published
+by the **Free Software Foundation**.
diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
deleted file mode 100644
index 279d20d..0000000
--- a/TODO
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,213 +0,0 @@
- - add 'name' field to metadata type and use it.
- - use validate_geometry more
- - metadata should be able to check/reject bitmap stuff.
-
-DDF:
-  Three new metadata types:
-    ddf - used only to create a container.
-    ddf-bvd - used to create an array in a container
-    ddf-svd - used to create a secondary array from bvds.
-
-  Usage:
-    mdadm -C /dev/ddf1 /dev/sd[abcdef]
-    mdadm -C /dev/md1 -e ddf /dev/sd[a-f]
-    mdadm -C /dev/md1 -l container /dev/sd[a-f]
-
-        Each of these create a new ddf container using all those
-	devices.  The name 'ddf*' signals that ddf metadata should be used.
-	'-e ddf' only supports one level - 'container'.  'container' is only
-	supported by ddf.
-
-    mdadm -C /dev/md1 -l0 -n4 /dev/ddf1 # or maybe not ???
-    mdadm -C /dev/md1 -l1 -n2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb
-	If exactly one device is given, and it is a container, we select
-	devices from that container.
-	If devices are given that are already in use, they must be in use by
-	a container, and the array is created in the container.
-	If devices given are bvds, we slip under the hood to make
-	  the svd arrays.
-
-    mdadm -A /dev/ddf ......
-	base drives make a container.  Anything in that container is started
-	 auto-read-only.
-	 if /dev/ddf is already assembled, we assemble bvds and svds inside it.
-
-
-2005-dec-20
-  Want an incremental assembly mode to work nicely with udev.
-  Core usage would be something like
-       mdadm --incr-assemble /dev/newdevice
-  This would
-     - examine the device to determine  uuid etc.
-     - look for a match in /etc/mdadm.conf, abort if not found
-     - find that device and collect current contents
-     - perform an 'assemble' analysis to make sure we have the best set of devices.
-     - remove or add devices as appropriate
-     - possibly start the array if it was complete
-
-   Other usages could involve
-     - specify which array to auto-add to.
-       This requires an existing array for uuid matching... is there any point?
-
-     -
-
-
-2004-june-02
-  * Don't print 'errors' flag, it is meaningless. DONE
-  * Handle new superblock format
-  * create device file on demand, particularly partitionable devices. DONE
-      BUT figure a way to create the partition devices.
-              auto=partN
-  * Use Event: interface to listen for events. DONE, untested
-  * Make sure mdadm -As can assemble multi-level RAIDs ok.
-  * --build to build raid1 or multipath arrays 
-       clean or not ???
-  
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-* mdadm --monitor to monitor failed multipath paths and re-instate them.
-
-* Maybe make "--help" fit in 80x24 and have a --long-help with more info. DONE
-
-
-* maybe "missing" instead of <bold>missing</> in doco DONE
-* possibly wait for resync to start, or even finish while assembling.- NO
-
-* -Db should have a devices= entry if possible. - DONE
-* when assembling multipath arrays, ignore any error indicators. - DONE
-* rationalise --monitor usage:
-     mdadm --monitor
-  doesn't do as expected. DONE
-
-* --assemble could have a --update option. - DONE
-  following word can be:
-	sparc2.2
-	super-minor
-
-* mdadm /dev/md11, where md11 is raid0 can segfault, particularly when looking in the 
-   [UU_UUU] string ... which doesn't exist !
-It should be more sensible.  DONE
-
-Example:
-
-from  Raimund Sacherer <raimund.sacherer@ngit.at>
-
-mke2fs -m0 -q /dev/ram1 300
-mount -n -t ext2 /dev/ram1 /tmp
-echo DEVICE /dev/[sh]* >> /tmp/mdadm.conf
-mdadm -Esb /dev/[sh]* 2>/dev/null >> /tmp/mdadm.conf
-mdadm -ARsc /tmp/mdadm.conf
-umount /tmp
-
-
-?? Allow -S /dev/md? - current complains subsequent not a/d/r - DONE
-
-* new "Query" mode to subsume --detail and --examine.
-   --query or -Q, takes a device and tells if it is an MD device,
-   and also tells in a raid superblock is found. 
- DONE
-
-* write mdstat.c to parse /proc/mdstat file
-   Build list of arrays:  name, rebuild-percent
-  DONE
-
-* parse /proc/partitions and map major/minor into /dev/* names,
-  and use that for default DEVICE list ????
-
-* --detail --scan to read /proc/mdstat, and then iterate over these,
-    but assume --brief.  --verbose can override
-    check each subdevice to see if it is in conf_get_devs.
-    Warn if not.
-  DONE, but don't warn yet...
-
-* Support multipath ... maybe...
-  maybe DONE
-
-* --follow to syslog 
-
-* --follow to move spares around DONE
-
-* --follow to notice other events: DONE
-     rebuild started
-     spare activated
-     spare removed
-     spare added
-
-------------------------------------
-- --examine --scan scans all drives and build an mdadm.conf file DONE
-
-- check superblock checksum in examine DONE
-- report "chunk" or "rounding" depending on raid level DONE
-- report "linear" instead of "-1" for raid level DONE
-- decode ayout depending on raid level DONE
-- --verbose and --force flags. DONE
-
-- set md_minor, *_disks for Create  - DONE
-- for create raid5, how to choose between 
-   all working, but not insync
-   one missing, one spare, insync  DONE (--force)
-- and for raid1 - some failed drives...  (missing)
-
-- when RUN_ARRAY, make sure *_disks counts are right
-
-- get --detail to extract extra stuff from superblock,
-   like uuid  DONE
-- --detail --brief to give a config file line DONE
-- parse config file. DONE
-- test...
-
-- when --assemble --scan, if an underlying device is an md device, 
-  then try to assemble that device first.
-
-
-- mdadm -S /dev/md0 /dev/md1 gives internal error FIXED
-
-- mdadm --detail --scan print summary of what it can find? DONE
-
-
----------
-Assemble doesn't add spares. - DONE
-Create to allow "missing" name for devices.
-Create to accept "--force" for do exactly what is requested
-- get Assemble to upgrade devices if force flag.
-ARRAY lines in config file to have super_minor=n
-ARRAY lines in config file to have device=pattern, and only accept
-   those devices
-   If UUID given, insist on that
-   If not, but super_minor given, require all found with that minor
-    to have same uuid
-   If only device given, all valid supers on those devices must have 
-    same uuid
-allow /dev/mdX as first argument before any options
-Possible --dry-run option for create and assemble--force
-
-Assemble to check that all devices mentioned in superblock
-  are present.
-
-New mode: --Monitor (or --Follow)
-  Periodically check status of all arrays (listed in config file).
-  Log every event and apparent cause - or differences
-  Email and alert - or run a program - for important events
-  Move spares around if necessary.
-
-  An Array line can have a spare-group= field that indicates that
-   the array shares spares with other arrays with the same
-   spare-group name.
-   If an array has a failed and no spares, then check all other
-     arrays in the spare group.  If one has no failures and a spare,
-     then consider that spare.
-    Choose the smallest considered spare that is large enough.
-    If there is one, then hot-remove it from it's home, and
-    hot-add it to the array in question.
-
-  --mail-to address  
-  --alert-handler program
-  
-  Will also extract information from /proc/mdstat if present,
-  and consider 20% marks in rebuild as events.
-
-  Events are:
-     drive fails  - causes mail to be sent
-     rebuild started
-     spare activated
-     spare removed
-     spare added
diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
index 44f7dd2..b46d71c 100644
--- a/config.c
+++ b/config.c
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ char DefaultAltConfDir[] = CONFFILE2 ".d";
 
 enum linetype { Devices, Array, Mailaddr, Mailfrom, Program, CreateDev,
 		Homehost, HomeCluster, AutoMode, Policy, PartPolicy, Sysfs,
-		MonitorDelay, LTEnd };
+		MonitorDelay, EncryptionNoVerify, LTEnd };
 char *keywords[] = {
 	[Devices]  = "devices",
 	[Array]    = "array",
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ char *keywords[] = {
 	[PartPolicy]="part-policy",
 	[Sysfs]    = "sysfs",
 	[MonitorDelay] = "monitordelay",
+	[EncryptionNoVerify] = "ENCRYPTION_NO_VERIFY",
 	[LTEnd]    = NULL
 };
 
@@ -729,6 +730,19 @@ void monitordelayline(char *line)
 	}
 }
 
+static bool sata_opal_encryption_no_verify;
+void encryption_no_verify_line(char *line)
+{
+	char *word;
+
+	for (word = dl_next(line); word != line; word = dl_next(word)) {
+		if (strcasecmp(word, "sata_opal") == 0)
+			sata_opal_encryption_no_verify = true;
+		else
+			pr_err("unrecognised word on ENCRYPTION_NO_VERIFY line: %s\n", word);
+	}
+}
+
 char auto_yes[] = "yes";
 char auto_no[] = "no";
 char auto_homehost[] = "homehost";
@@ -913,6 +927,9 @@ void conf_file(FILE *f)
 		case MonitorDelay:
 			monitordelayline(line);
 			break;
+		case EncryptionNoVerify:
+			encryption_no_verify_line(line);
+			break;
 		default:
 			pr_err("Unknown keyword %s\n", line);
 		}
@@ -1075,6 +1092,12 @@ int conf_get_monitor_delay(void)
 	return monitor_delay;
 }
 
+bool conf_get_sata_opal_encryption_no_verify(void)
+{
+	load_conffile();
+	return sata_opal_encryption_no_verify;
+}
+
 struct createinfo *conf_get_create_info(void)
 {
 	load_conffile();
diff --git a/external-reshape-design.txt b/documentation/external-reshape-design.txt
index e4cf4e1..e4cf4e1 100644
--- a/external-reshape-design.txt
+++ b/documentation/external-reshape-design.txt
diff --git a/mdadm.conf-example b/documentation/mdadm.conf-example
index 35a75d1..35a75d1 100644
--- a/mdadm.conf-example
+++ b/documentation/mdadm.conf-example
diff --git a/mdmon-design.txt b/documentation/mdmon-design.txt
index f09184a..f09184a 100644
--- a/mdmon-design.txt
+++ b/documentation/mdmon-design.txt
diff --git a/drive_encryption.c b/drive_encryption.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27da962
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drive_encryption.c
@@ -0,0 +1,724 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
+/*
+ * Read encryption information for Opal and ATA devices.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
+ *	Author: Blazej Kucman <blazej.kucman@intel.com>
+ */
+
+#include "mdadm.h"
+
+#include <asm/types.h>
+#include <linux/nvme_ioctl.h>
+#include <scsi/sg.h>
+#include <scsi/scsi.h>
+#include "drive_encryption.h"
+
+#define DEFAULT_SECTOR_SIZE (512)
+
+/*
+ * Opal defines
+ * TCG Storage Opal SSC 2.01 chapter 3.3.3
+ * NVM ExpressTM Revision 1.4c, chapter 5
+ */
+#define TCG_SECP_01 (0x01)
+#define TCG_SECP_00 (0x00)
+#define OPAL_DISCOVERY_COMID (0x0001)
+#define OPAL_LOCKING_FEATURE (0x0002)
+#define OPAL_IO_BUFFER_LEN 2048
+#define OPAL_DISCOVERY_FEATURE_HEADER_LEN (4)
+
+/*
+ * NVMe defines
+ * NVM ExpressTM Revision 1.4c, chapter 5
+ */
+#define NVME_SECURITY_RECV (0x82)
+#define NVME_IDENTIFY (0x06)
+#define NVME_IDENTIFY_RESPONSE_LEN 4096
+#define NVME_OACS_BYTE_POSITION (256)
+#define NVME_IDENTIFY_CONTROLLER_DATA (1)
+
+/*
+ * ATA defines
+ * ATA/ATAPI Command Set ATA8-ACS
+ * SCSI / ATA Translation - 3 (SAT-3)
+ * SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (SPC-4)
+ * AT Attachment-8 - ATA Serial Transport (ATA8-AST)
+ * ATA Command Pass-Through
+ */
+#define ATA_IDENTIFY (0xec)
+#define ATA_TRUSTED_RECEIVE (0x5c)
+#define ATA_SECURITY_WORD_POSITION (128)
+#define HDIO_DRIVE_CMD (0x031f)
+#define ATA_TRUSTED_COMPUTING_POS (48)
+#define ATA_PASS_THROUGH_12 (0xa1)
+#define ATA_IDENTIFY_RESPONSE_LEN (512)
+#define ATA_PIO_DATA_IN (4)
+#define SG_CHECK_CONDITION (0x02)
+#define ATA_STATUS_RETURN_DESCRIPTOR (0x09)
+#define ATA_PT_INFORMATION_AVAILABLE_ASCQ (0x1d)
+#define ATA_PT_INFORMATION_AVAILABLE_ASC (0x00)
+#define ATA_INQUIRY_LENGTH (0x0c)
+#define SG_INTERFACE_ID 'S'
+#define SG_IO_TIMEOUT (60000)
+#define SG_SENSE_SIZE (32)
+#define SENSE_DATA_CURRENT_FIXED (0x70)
+#define SENSE_DATA_CURRENT_DESC (0x72)
+#define SENSE_CURRENT_RES_DESC_POS (8)
+#define SG_DRIVER_SENSE	(0x08)
+
+typedef enum drive_feature_support_status {
+	/* Drive feature is supported. */
+	DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST = 0,
+	/* Drive feature is not supported. */
+	DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST,
+	/* Drive feature support check failed. */
+	DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST
+} drive_feat_sup_st;
+
+/* TCG Storage Opal SSC 2.01 chapter 3.1.1.3 */
+typedef struct opal_locking_feature {
+	/* feature header */
+	__u16 feature_code;
+	__u8 reserved : 4;
+	__u8 version : 4;
+	__u8 description_length;
+	/* feature description */
+	__u8 locking_supported : 1;
+	__u8 locking_enabled : 1;
+	__u8 locked : 1;
+	__u8 media_encryption : 1;
+	__u8 mbr_enabled : 1;
+	__u8 mbr_done : 1;
+	__u8 mbr_shadowing_not_supported : 1;
+	__u8 hw_reset_for_dor_supported : 1;
+	__u8 reserved1[11];
+} __attribute__((__packed__)) opal_locking_feature_t;
+
+/* TCG Storage Opal SSC 2.01 chapter 3.1.1.1 */
+typedef struct opal_level0_header {
+	__u32 length;
+	__u32 version;
+	__u64 reserved;
+	__u8 vendor_specific[32];
+} opal_level0_header_t;
+
+/**
+ * NVM ExpressTM Revision 1.4c, Figure 249
+ * Structure specifies only OACS filed, which is needed in the current use case.
+ */
+typedef struct nvme_identify_ctrl {
+	__u8 reserved[255];
+	__u16 oacs;
+	__u8 reserved2[3839];
+} nvme_identify_ctrl_t;
+
+/* SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (SPC-4), Table 512 */
+typedef struct supported_security_protocols {
+	__u8  reserved[6];
+	__u16 list_length;
+	__u8  list[504];
+} supported_security_protocols_t;
+
+/* ATA/ATAPI Command Set - 3 (ACS-3), Table 45 */
+typedef struct ata_security_status {
+	__u16 security_supported : 1;
+	__u16 security_enabled : 1;
+	__u16 security_locked : 1;
+	__u16 security_frozen : 1;
+	__u16 security_count_expired : 1;
+	__u16 enhanced_security_erase_supported : 1;
+	__u16 reserved1 : 2;
+	__u16 security_level : 1;
+	__u16 reserved2 : 7;
+} __attribute__((__packed__)) ata_security_status_t;
+
+/* ATA/ATAPI Command Set - 3 (ACS-3), Table 45 */
+typedef struct ata_trusted_computing {
+	__u16 tc_feature :1;
+	__u16 reserved : 13;
+	__u16 var1 : 1;
+	__u16 var2 : 1;
+} __attribute__((__packed__)) ata_trusted_computing_t;
+
+mapping_t encryption_ability_map[] = {
+	{ "None", ENC_ABILITY_NONE },
+	{ "Other", ENC_ABILITY_OTHER },
+	{ "SED", ENC_ABILITY_SED },
+	{ NULL, UnSet }
+};
+
+mapping_t encryption_status_map[] = {
+	{ "Unencrypted", ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED },
+	{ "Locked", ENC_STATUS_LOCKED },
+	{ "Unlocked", ENC_STATUS_UNLOCKED },
+	{ NULL, UnSet }
+};
+
+/**
+ * get_encryption_ability_string() - get encryption ability name string.
+ * @ability: encryption ability enum.
+ *
+ * Return: encryption ability string.
+ */
+const char *get_encryption_ability_string(enum encryption_ability ability)
+{
+	return map_num_s(encryption_ability_map, ability);
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_encryption_status_string() - get encryption status name string.
+ * @ability: encryption status enum.
+ *
+ * Return: encryption status string.
+ */
+const char *get_encryption_status_string(enum encryption_status status)
+{
+	return map_num_s(encryption_status_map, status);
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_opal_locking_feature_description() - get opal locking feature description.
+ * @response: response from Opal Discovery Level 0.
+ *
+ * Based on the documentation TCG Storage Opal SSC 2.01 chapter 3.1.1,
+ * a Locking feature is searched for in Opal Level 0 Discovery response.
+ *
+ * Return: if locking feature is found, pointer to struct %opal_locking_feature_t, NULL otherwise.
+ */
+static opal_locking_feature_t *get_opal_locking_feature_description(__u8 *response)
+{
+	opal_level0_header_t *response_header = (opal_level0_header_t *)response;
+	int features_length = __be32_to_cpu(response_header->length);
+	int current_position = sizeof(*response_header);
+
+	while (current_position < features_length) {
+		opal_locking_feature_t *feature;
+
+		feature = (opal_locking_feature_t *)(response + current_position);
+
+		if (__be16_to_cpu(feature->feature_code) == OPAL_LOCKING_FEATURE)
+			return feature;
+
+		current_position += feature->description_length + OPAL_DISCOVERY_FEATURE_HEADER_LEN;
+	}
+
+	return NULL;
+}
+
+/**
+ * nvme_security_recv_ioctl() - nvme security receive ioctl.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @sec_protocol: security protocol.
+ * @comm_id: command id.
+ * @response_buffer: response buffer to fill out.
+ * @buf_size: response buffer size.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Based on the documentations TCG Storage Opal SSC 2.01 chapter 3.3.3 and
+ * NVM ExpressTM Revision 1.4c, chapter 5.25,
+ * read security receive command via ioctl().
+ * On success, @response_buffer is completed.
+ *
+ * Return: %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR otherwise.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t
+nvme_security_recv_ioctl(int disk_fd, __u8 sec_protocol, __u16 comm_id, void *response_buffer,
+			 size_t buf_size, const int verbose)
+{
+	struct nvme_admin_cmd nvme_cmd = {0};
+	int status;
+
+	nvme_cmd.opcode = NVME_SECURITY_RECV;
+	nvme_cmd.cdw10 = sec_protocol << 24 | comm_id << 8;
+	nvme_cmd.cdw11 = buf_size;
+	nvme_cmd.data_len = buf_size;
+	nvme_cmd.addr = (__u64)response_buffer;
+
+	status = ioctl(disk_fd, NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD, &nvme_cmd);
+	if (status != 0) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed to read NVMe security receive ioctl() for device /dev/%s, status: %d\n",
+		       fd2kname(disk_fd), status);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * nvme_identify_ioctl() - NVMe identify ioctl.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @response_buffer: response buffer to fill out.
+ * @buf_size: response buffer size.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Based on the documentations TCG Storage Opal SSC 2.01 chapter 3.3.3 and
+ * NVM ExpressTM Revision 1.4c, chapter 5.25,
+ * read NVMe identify via ioctl().
+ * On success, @response_buffer will be completed.
+ *
+ * Return: %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR otherwise.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t
+nvme_identify_ioctl(int disk_fd, void *response_buffer, size_t buf_size, const int verbose)
+{
+	struct nvme_admin_cmd nvme_cmd = {0};
+	int status;
+
+	nvme_cmd.opcode = NVME_IDENTIFY;
+	nvme_cmd.cdw10 = NVME_IDENTIFY_CONTROLLER_DATA;
+	nvme_cmd.data_len = buf_size;
+	nvme_cmd.addr = (__u64)response_buffer;
+
+	status = ioctl(disk_fd, NVME_IOCTL_ADMIN_CMD, &nvme_cmd);
+	if (status != 0) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed to read NVMe identify ioctl() for device /dev/%s, status: %d\n",
+		       fd2kname(disk_fd), status);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * is_sec_prot_01h_supported() - check if security protocol 01h supported.
+ * @security_protocols: struct with response from disk (NVMe, SATA) describing supported
+ * security protocols.
+ *
+ * Return: true if TCG_SECP_01 found, false otherwise.
+ */
+static bool is_sec_prot_01h_supported(supported_security_protocols_t *security_protocols)
+{
+	int list_length = be16toh(security_protocols->list_length);
+	int index;
+
+	for (index = 0 ; index < list_length; index++) {
+		if (security_protocols->list[index] == TCG_SECP_01)
+			return true;
+	}
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * is_sec_prot_01h_supported_nvme() - check if security protocol 01h supported for given NVMe disk.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Return: %DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST if TCG_SECP_01 supported, %DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST if not supported,
+ * %DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST if failed to check.
+ */
+static drive_feat_sup_st is_sec_prot_01h_supported_nvme(int disk_fd, const int verbose)
+{
+	supported_security_protocols_t security_protocols = {0};
+
+	/* security_protocol: TCG_SECP_00, comm_id: not applicable */
+	if (nvme_security_recv_ioctl(disk_fd, TCG_SECP_00, 0x0, &security_protocols,
+				     sizeof(security_protocols), verbose))
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST;
+
+	if (is_sec_prot_01h_supported(&security_protocols))
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST;
+
+	return DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST;
+}
+
+/**
+ * is_nvme_sec_send_recv_supported() - check if Security Send and Security Receive is supported.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Check if "Optional Admin Command Support" bit 0 is set in NVMe identify.
+ * Bit 0 set to 1 means controller supports the Security Send and Security Receive commands.
+ *
+ * Return: %DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST if security send/receive supported,
+ * %DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST if not supported, %DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST if check failed.
+ */
+static drive_feat_sup_st is_nvme_sec_send_recv_supported(int disk_fd, const int verbose)
+{
+	nvme_identify_ctrl_t nvme_identify = {0};
+	int status = 0;
+
+	status = nvme_identify_ioctl(disk_fd, &nvme_identify, sizeof(nvme_identify), verbose);
+	if (status)
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST;
+
+	if ((__le16_to_cpu(nvme_identify.oacs) & 0x1) == 0x1)
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST;
+
+	return DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST;
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_opal_encryption_information() - get Opal encryption information.
+ * @buffer: buffer with Opal Level 0 Discovery response.
+ * @information: struct to fill out, describing encryption status of disk.
+ *
+ * If Locking feature frame is in response from Opal Level 0 discovery, &encryption_information_t
+ * structure is completed with status and ability otherwise the status is set to &None.
+ * For possible encryption statuses and abilities,
+ * please refer to enums &encryption_status and &encryption_ability.
+ *
+ * Return: %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR otherwise.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t get_opal_encryption_information(__u8 *buffer,
+						      encryption_information_t *information)
+{
+	opal_locking_feature_t *opal_locking_feature =
+					get_opal_locking_feature_description(buffer);
+
+	if (!opal_locking_feature)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	if (opal_locking_feature->locking_supported == 1) {
+		information->ability = ENC_ABILITY_SED;
+
+		if (opal_locking_feature->locking_enabled == 0)
+			information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED;
+		else if (opal_locking_feature->locked == 1)
+			information->status = ENC_STATUS_LOCKED;
+		else
+			information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNLOCKED;
+	} else {
+		information->ability = ENC_ABILITY_NONE;
+		information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_nvme_opal_encryption_information() - get NVMe Opal encryption information.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @information: struct to fill out, describing encryption status of disk.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * In case the disk supports Opal Level 0 discovery, &encryption_information_t structure
+ * is completed with status and ability based on ioctl response,
+ * otherwise the ability is set to %ENC_ABILITY_NONE and &status to %ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED.
+ * As the current use case does not need the knowledge of Opal support, if there is no support,
+ * %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS will be returned, with the values described above.
+ * For possible encryption statuses and abilities,
+ * please refer to enums &encryption_status and &encryption_ability.
+ *
+ * %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR otherwise.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t
+get_nvme_opal_encryption_information(int disk_fd, encryption_information_t *information,
+				     const int verbose)
+{
+	__u8 buffer[OPAL_IO_BUFFER_LEN];
+	int sec_send_recv_supported = 0;
+	int protocol_01h_supported = 0;
+	mdadm_status_t status;
+
+	information->ability = ENC_ABILITY_NONE;
+	information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED;
+
+	sec_send_recv_supported = is_nvme_sec_send_recv_supported(disk_fd, verbose);
+	if (sec_send_recv_supported == DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	/* Opal not supported */
+	if (sec_send_recv_supported == DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	/**
+	 * sec_send_recv_supported determine that it should be possible to read
+	 * supported sec protocols
+	 */
+	protocol_01h_supported = is_sec_prot_01h_supported_nvme(disk_fd, verbose);
+	if (protocol_01h_supported == DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	/* Opal not supported */
+	if (sec_send_recv_supported == DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST &&
+	    protocol_01h_supported == DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	if (nvme_security_recv_ioctl(disk_fd, TCG_SECP_01, OPAL_DISCOVERY_COMID, (void *)&buffer,
+				     OPAL_IO_BUFFER_LEN, verbose))
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	status = get_opal_encryption_information((__u8 *)&buffer, information);
+	if (status)
+		pr_vrb("Locking feature description not found in Level 0 discovery response. Device /dev/%s.\n",
+		       fd2kname(disk_fd));
+
+	if (information->ability == ENC_ABILITY_NONE)
+		assert(information->status == ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED);
+
+	return status;
+}
+
+/**
+ * ata_pass_through12_ioctl() - ata pass through12 ioctl.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @ata_command: ata command.
+ * @sec_protocol: security protocol.
+ * @comm_id: additional command id.
+ * @response_buffer: response buffer to fill out.
+ * @buf_size: response buffer size.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Based on the documentations ATA Command Pass-Through, chapter 13.2.2 and
+ * ATA Translation - 3 (SAT-3), send read ata pass through 12 command via ioctl().
+ * On success, @response_buffer will be completed.
+ *
+ * Return: %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR on fail.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t
+ata_pass_through12_ioctl(int disk_fd, __u8 ata_command,  __u8 sec_protocol, __u16 comm_id,
+			 void *response_buffer, size_t buf_size, const int verbose)
+{
+	__u8 cdb[ATA_INQUIRY_LENGTH] = {0};
+	__u8 sense[SG_SENSE_SIZE] = {0};
+	__u8 *sense_desc = NULL;
+	sg_io_hdr_t sg = {0};
+
+	/*
+	 * ATA Command Pass-Through, chapter 13.2.2
+	 * SCSI Primary Commands - 4 (SPC-4)
+	 * ATA Translation - 3 (SAT-3)
+	 */
+	cdb[0] = ATA_PASS_THROUGH_12;
+	/* protocol, bits 1-4 */
+	cdb[1] = ATA_PIO_DATA_IN << 1;
+	/* Bytes: CK_COND=1, T_DIR = 1, BYTE_BLOCK = 1, Length in Sector Count = 2 */
+	cdb[2] = 0x2E;
+	cdb[3] = sec_protocol;
+	/* Sector count */
+	cdb[4] = buf_size / DEFAULT_SECTOR_SIZE;
+	cdb[6] = (comm_id) & 0xFF;
+	cdb[7] = (comm_id >> 8) & 0xFF;
+	cdb[9] = ata_command;
+
+	sg.interface_id = SG_INTERFACE_ID;
+	sg.cmd_len = sizeof(cdb);
+	sg.mx_sb_len = sizeof(sense);
+	sg.dxfer_direction = SG_DXFER_FROM_DEV;
+	sg.dxfer_len = buf_size;
+	sg.dxferp = response_buffer;
+	sg.cmdp = cdb;
+	sg.sbp = sense;
+	sg.timeout = SG_IO_TIMEOUT;
+	sg.usr_ptr = NULL;
+
+	if (ioctl(disk_fd, SG_IO, &sg) < 0) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed ata passthrough12 ioctl. Device: /dev/%s.\n", fd2kname(disk_fd));
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	if ((sg.status && sg.status != SG_CHECK_CONDITION) || sg.host_status ||
+	    (sg.driver_status && sg.driver_status != SG_DRIVER_SENSE)) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed ata passthrough12 ioctl. Device: /dev/%s.\n", fd2kname(disk_fd));
+		pr_vrb("SG_IO error: ATA_12 Status: %d Host Status: %d, Driver Status: %d\n",
+		       sg.status, sg.host_status, sg.driver_status);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/* verify expected sense response code */
+	if (!(sense[0] == SENSE_DATA_CURRENT_DESC || sense[0] == SENSE_DATA_CURRENT_FIXED)) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed ata passthrough12 ioctl. Device: /dev/%s.\n", fd2kname(disk_fd));
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	sense_desc = sense + SENSE_CURRENT_RES_DESC_POS;
+	/* verify sense data current response with descriptor format */
+	if (sense[0] == SENSE_DATA_CURRENT_DESC &&
+	    !(sense_desc[0] == ATA_STATUS_RETURN_DESCRIPTOR &&
+	    sense_desc[1] == ATA_INQUIRY_LENGTH)) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed ata passthrough12 ioctl. Device: /dev/%s. Sense data ASC: %d, ASCQ: %d.\n",
+		       fd2kname(disk_fd), sense[2], sense[3]);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	/* verify sense data current response with fixed format */
+	if (sense[0] == SENSE_DATA_CURRENT_FIXED &&
+	    !(sense[12] == ATA_PT_INFORMATION_AVAILABLE_ASC &&
+	    sense[13] == ATA_PT_INFORMATION_AVAILABLE_ASCQ)) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed ata passthrough12 ioctl. Device: /dev/%s. Sense data ASC: %d, ASCQ: %d.\n",
+		       fd2kname(disk_fd), sense[12], sense[13]);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * is_sec_prot_01h_supported_ata() - check if security protocol 01h supported for given SATA disk.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Return: %DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST if TCG_SECP_01 supported, %DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST if not supported,
+ * %DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST if failed.
+ */
+static drive_feat_sup_st is_sec_prot_01h_supported_ata(int disk_fd, const int verbose)
+{
+	supported_security_protocols_t security_protocols;
+
+	mdadm_status_t result = ata_pass_through12_ioctl(disk_fd, ATA_TRUSTED_RECEIVE, TCG_SECP_00,
+							 0x0, &security_protocols,
+							 sizeof(security_protocols), verbose);
+	if (result)
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST;
+
+	if (is_sec_prot_01h_supported(&security_protocols))
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST;
+
+	return DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST;
+}
+
+/**
+ * is_ata_trusted_computing_supported() - check if ata trusted computing supported.
+ * @buffer: buffer with ATA identify response, not NULL.
+ *
+ * Return: true if trusted computing bit set, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool is_ata_trusted_computing_supported(__u16 *buffer)
+{
+	/* Added due to warnings from the compiler about a possible uninitialized variable below. */
+	assert(buffer);
+
+	__u16 security_tc_frame = __le16_to_cpu(buffer[ATA_TRUSTED_COMPUTING_POS]);
+	ata_trusted_computing_t *security_tc = (ata_trusted_computing_t *)&security_tc_frame;
+
+	if (security_tc->tc_feature == 1)
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_ata_standard_security_status() - get ATA disk encryption information from ATA identify.
+ * @buffer: buffer with response from ATA identify, not NULL.
+ * @information: struct to fill out, describing encryption status of disk.
+ *
+ * The function based on the Security status frame from ATA identify,
+ * completed encryption information.
+ * For possible encryption statuses and abilities,
+ * please refer to enums &encryption_status and &encryption_ability.
+ *
+ * Return: %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR on fail.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t get_ata_standard_security_status(__u16 *buffer,
+						       struct encryption_information *information)
+{
+	/* Added due to warnings from the compiler about a possible uninitialized variable below. */
+	assert(buffer);
+
+	__u16 security_status_frame = __le16_to_cpu(buffer[ATA_SECURITY_WORD_POSITION]);
+	ata_security_status_t *security_status = (ata_security_status_t *)&security_status_frame;
+
+	if (!security_status->security_supported) {
+		information->ability = ENC_ABILITY_NONE;
+		information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED;
+
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+	}
+
+	information->ability = ENC_ABILITY_OTHER;
+
+	if (security_status->security_enabled == 0)
+		information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED;
+	else if (security_status->security_locked == 1)
+		information->status = ENC_STATUS_LOCKED;
+	else
+		information->status = ENC_STATUS_UNLOCKED;
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * is_ata_opal() - check if SATA disk support Opal.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @buffer: buffer with ATA identify response.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Return: %DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST if TCG_SECP_01 supported, %DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST if not supported,
+ * %DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST if failed to check.
+ */
+static drive_feat_sup_st is_ata_opal(int disk_fd, __u16 *buffer_identify, const int verbose)
+{
+	bool tc_status = is_ata_trusted_computing_supported(buffer_identify);
+	drive_feat_sup_st tcg_sec_prot_status;
+
+	if (!tc_status)
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST;
+
+	tcg_sec_prot_status = is_sec_prot_01h_supported_ata(disk_fd, verbose);
+
+	if (tcg_sec_prot_status == DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed to verify if security protocol 01h supported. Device /dev/%s.\n",
+		       fd2kname(disk_fd));
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST;
+	}
+
+	if (tc_status && tcg_sec_prot_status == DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST)
+		return DRIVE_FEAT_SUP_ST;
+
+	return DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST;
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_ata_encryption_information() - get ATA disk encryption information.
+ * @disk_fd: a disk file descriptor.
+ * @information: struct to fill out, describing encryption status of disk.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * The function reads information about encryption, if the disk supports Opal,
+ * the information is completed based on Opal Level 0 discovery, otherwise,
+ * based on ATA security status frame from ATA identification response.
+ * For possible encryption statuses and abilities,
+ * please refer to enums &encryption_status and &encryption_ability.
+ *
+ * Based on the documentations ATA/ATAPI Command Set ATA8-ACS and
+ * AT Attachment-8 - ATA Serial Transport (ATA8-AST).
+ *
+ * Return: %MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS on success, %MDADM_STATUS_ERROR on fail.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t
+get_ata_encryption_information(int disk_fd, struct encryption_information *information,
+			       const int verbose)
+{
+	__u8 buffer_opal_level0_discovery[OPAL_IO_BUFFER_LEN] = {0};
+	__u16 buffer_identify[ATA_IDENTIFY_RESPONSE_LEN] = {0};
+	drive_feat_sup_st ata_opal_status;
+	mdadm_status_t status;
+
+	/* Get disk ATA identification */
+	status = ata_pass_through12_ioctl(disk_fd, ATA_IDENTIFY, 0x0, 0x0, buffer_identify,
+					  sizeof(buffer_identify), verbose);
+	if (status == MDADM_STATUS_ERROR)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	/* Possible OPAL support, further checks require tpm_enabled.*/
+	if (is_ata_trusted_computing_supported(buffer_identify)) {
+		/* OPAL SATA encryption checking disabled. */
+		if (conf_get_sata_opal_encryption_no_verify())
+			return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+		if (!sysfs_is_libata_allow_tpm_enabled(verbose)) {
+			pr_vrb("Detected SATA drive /dev/%s with Trusted Computing support.\n",
+			       fd2kname(disk_fd));
+			pr_vrb("Cannot verify encryption state. Requires libata.tpm_enabled=1.\n");
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+		}
+	}
+
+	ata_opal_status = is_ata_opal(disk_fd, buffer_identify, verbose);
+	if (ata_opal_status == DRIVE_FEAT_CHECK_FAILED_ST)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	if (ata_opal_status == DRIVE_FEAT_NOT_SUP_ST)
+		return get_ata_standard_security_status(buffer_identify, information);
+
+	/* SATA Opal */
+	status = ata_pass_through12_ioctl(disk_fd, ATA_TRUSTED_RECEIVE, TCG_SECP_01,
+					  OPAL_DISCOVERY_COMID, buffer_opal_level0_discovery,
+					  OPAL_IO_BUFFER_LEN, verbose);
+	if (status != MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+	return get_opal_encryption_information(buffer_opal_level0_discovery, information);
+}
diff --git a/drive_encryption.h b/drive_encryption.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0cb8ff1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/drive_encryption.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only */
+/*
+ * Read encryption information for Opal and ATA devices.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 Intel Corporation
+ *	Author: Blazej Kucman <blazej.kucman@intel.com>
+ */
+
+typedef enum encryption_status {
+	/* The drive is not currently encrypted. */
+	ENC_STATUS_UNENCRYPTED = 0,
+	/* The drive is encrypted and the data is not accessible. */
+	ENC_STATUS_LOCKED,
+	/* The drive is encrypted but the data is accessible in unencrypted form. */
+	ENC_STATUS_UNLOCKED
+} encryption_status_t;
+
+typedef enum encryption_ability {
+	ENC_ABILITY_NONE = 0,
+	ENC_ABILITY_OTHER,
+	/* Self encrypted drive */
+	ENC_ABILITY_SED
+} encryption_ability_t;
+
+typedef struct encryption_information {
+	encryption_ability_t ability;
+	encryption_status_t status;
+} encryption_information_t;
+
+mdadm_status_t
+get_nvme_opal_encryption_information(int disk_fd, struct encryption_information *information,
+				     const int verbose);
+mdadm_status_t
+get_ata_encryption_information(int disk_fd, struct encryption_information *information,
+			       const int verbose);
+const char *get_encryption_ability_string(enum encryption_ability ability);
+const char *get_encryption_status_string(enum encryption_status status);
diff --git a/inventory b/inventory
deleted file mode 100755
index c4801b4..0000000
--- a/inventory
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,284 +0,0 @@
-
-.gitignore
-ANNOUNCE-3.0
-ANNOUNCE-3.0.1
-ANNOUNCE-3.0.2
-ANNOUNCE-3.0.3
-ANNOUNCE-3.1
-ANNOUNCE-3.1.1
-ANNOUNCE-3.1.2
-ANNOUNCE-3.1.3
-ANNOUNCE-3.1.4
-ANNOUNCE-3.1.5
-ANNOUNCE-3.2
-ANNOUNCE-3.2.1
-ANNOUNCE-3.2.2
-ANNOUNCE-3.2.3
-ANNOUNCE-3.2.4
-ANNOUNCE-3.2.5
-ANNOUNCE-3.2.6
-ANNOUNCE-3.3
-ANNOUNCE-3.3.1
-ANNOUNCE-3.3.2
-ANNOUNCE-3.3.3
-ANNOUNCE-3.3.4
-ANNOUNCE-3.4
-ANNOUNCE-4.0
-ANNOUNCE-4.1
-ANNOUNCE-4.2
-Assemble.c
-Build.c
-COPYING
-ChangeLog
-Create.c
-Detail.c
-Dump.c
-Examine.c
-Grow.c
-INSTALL
-Incremental.c
-Kill.c
-Makefile
-Manage.c
-Monitor.c
-Query.c
-README.initramfs
-ReadMe.c
-TODO
-bitmap.c
-bitmap.h
-clustermd_tests/
-clustermd_tests/00r10_Create
-clustermd_tests/00r1_Create
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-clustermd_tests/cluster_conf
-clustermd_tests/func.sh
-config.c
-coverity-gcc-hack.h
-crc32.c
-crc32.h
-crc32c.c
-dlink.c
-dlink.h
-external-reshape-design.txt
-inventory
-lib.c
-makedist
-managemon.c
-mapfile.c
-maps.c
-md.4
-md5.h
-md_p.h
-md_u.h
-mdadm.8.in
-mdadm.c
-mdadm.conf-example
-mdadm.conf.5
-mdadm.h
-mdadm.spec
-mdmon-design.txt
-mdmon.8
-mdmon.c
-mdmon.h
-mdopen.c
-mdstat.c
-misc/
-misc/mdcheck
-misc/syslog-events
-mkinitramfs
-monitor.c
-msg.c
-msg.h
-part.h
-platform-intel.c
-platform-intel.h
-policy.c
-probe_roms.c
-probe_roms.h
-pwgr.c
-raid5extend.c
-raid6check.8
-raid6check.c
-restripe.c
-sg_io.c
-sha1.c
-sha1.h
-super-ddf.c
-super-gpt.c
-super-intel.c
-super-mbr.c
-super0.c
-super1.c
-swap_super.c
-sysfs.c
-systemd/
-systemd/SUSE-mdadm_env.sh
-systemd/mdadm-grow-continue@.service
-systemd/mdadm-last-resort@.service
-systemd/mdadm-last-resort@.timer
-systemd/mdadm.shutdown
-systemd/mdcheck_continue.service
-systemd/mdcheck_continue.timer
-systemd/mdcheck_start.service
-systemd/mdcheck_start.timer
-systemd/mdmon@.service
-systemd/mdmonitor-oneshot.service
-systemd/mdmonitor-oneshot.timer
-systemd/mdmonitor.service
-test
-tests/
-tests/00linear
-tests/00multipath
-tests/00names
-tests/00raid0
-tests/00raid1
-tests/00raid10
-tests/00raid4
-tests/00raid5
-tests/00raid6
-tests/00readonly
-tests/01r1fail
-tests/01r5fail
-tests/01r5integ
-tests/01raid6integ
-tests/01replace
-tests/02lineargrow
-tests/02r1add
-tests/02r1grow
-tests/02r5grow
-tests/02r6grow
-tests/03assem-incr
-tests/03r0assem
-tests/03r5assem
-tests/03r5assem-failed
-tests/03r5assemV1
-tests/04r0update
-tests/04r1update
-tests/04r5swap
-tests/04update-metadata
-tests/04update-uuid
-tests/05r1-add-internalbitmap
-tests/05r1-add-internalbitmap-v1a
-tests/05r1-add-internalbitmap-v1b
-tests/05r1-add-internalbitmap-v1c
-tests/05r1-bitmapfile
-tests/05r1-failfast
-tests/05r1-grow-external
-tests/05r1-grow-internal
-tests/05r1-grow-internal-1
-tests/05r1-internalbitmap
-tests/05r1-internalbitmap-v1a
-tests/05r1-internalbitmap-v1b
-tests/05r1-internalbitmap-v1c
-tests/05r1-n3-bitmapfile
-tests/05r1-re-add
-tests/05r1-re-add-nosuper
-tests/05r1-remove-internalbitmap
-tests/05r1-remove-internalbitmap-v1a
-tests/05r1-remove-internalbitmap-v1b
-tests/05r1-remove-internalbitmap-v1c
-tests/05r5-bitmapfile
-tests/05r5-internalbitmap
-tests/05r6-bitmapfile
-tests/05r6tor0
-tests/06name
-tests/06sysfs
-tests/06wrmostly
-tests/07autoassemble
-tests/07autodetect
-tests/07changelevelintr
-tests/07changelevels
-tests/07layouts
-tests/07reshape5intr
-tests/07revert-grow
-tests/07revert-inplace
-tests/07revert-shrink
-tests/07testreshape5
-tests/09imsm-assemble
-tests/09imsm-create-fail-rebuild
-tests/09imsm-overlap
-tests/10ddf-assemble-missing
-tests/10ddf-create
-tests/10ddf-create-fail-rebuild
-tests/10ddf-fail-create-race
-tests/10ddf-fail-readd
-tests/10ddf-fail-readd-readonly
-tests/10ddf-fail-spare
-tests/10ddf-fail-stop-readd
-tests/10ddf-fail-twice
-tests/10ddf-fail-two-spares
-tests/10ddf-geometry
-tests/10ddf-incremental-wrong-order
-tests/10ddf-sudden-degraded
-tests/11spare-migration
-tests/12imsm-r0_2d-grow-r0_3d
-tests/12imsm-r0_2d-grow-r0_4d
-tests/12imsm-r0_2d-grow-r0_5d
-tests/12imsm-r0_3d-grow-r0_4d
-tests/12imsm-r5_3d-grow-r5_4d
-tests/12imsm-r5_3d-grow-r5_5d
-tests/13imsm-r0_r0_2d-grow-r0_r0_4d
-tests/13imsm-r0_r0_2d-grow-r0_r0_5d
-tests/13imsm-r0_r0_3d-grow-r0_r0_4d
-tests/13imsm-r0_r5_3d-grow-r0_r5_4d
-tests/13imsm-r0_r5_3d-grow-r0_r5_5d
-tests/13imsm-r5_r0_3d-grow-r5_r0_4d
-tests/13imsm-r5_r0_3d-grow-r5_r0_5d
-tests/14imsm-r0_3d-r5_3d-migrate-r5_4d-r5_4d
-tests/14imsm-r0_3d_no_spares-migrate-r5_3d
-tests/14imsm-r0_r0_2d-takeover-r10_4d
-tests/14imsm-r10_4d-grow-r10_5d
-tests/14imsm-r10_r5_4d-takeover-r0_2d
-tests/14imsm-r1_2d-grow-r1_3d
-tests/14imsm-r1_2d-takeover-r0_2d
-tests/14imsm-r5_3d-grow-r5_5d-no-spares
-tests/14imsm-r5_3d-migrate-r4_3d
-tests/15imsm-r0_3d_64k-migrate-r0_3d_256k
-tests/15imsm-r5_3d_4k-migrate-r5_3d_256k
-tests/15imsm-r5_3d_64k-migrate-r5_3d_256k
-tests/15imsm-r5_6d_4k-migrate-r5_6d_256k
-tests/15imsm-r5_r0_3d_64k-migrate-r5_r0_3d_256k
-tests/16imsm-r0_3d-migrate-r5_4d
-tests/16imsm-r0_5d-migrate-r5_6d
-tests/16imsm-r5_3d-migrate-r0_3d
-tests/16imsm-r5_5d-migrate-r0_5d
-tests/18imsm-1d-takeover-r0_1d
-tests/18imsm-1d-takeover-r1_2d
-tests/18imsm-r0_2d-takeover-r10_4d
-tests/18imsm-r10_4d-takeover-r0_2d
-tests/18imsm-r1_2d-takeover-r0_1d
-tests/19raid6auto-repair
-tests/19raid6check
-tests/19raid6repair
-tests/19repair-does-not-destroy
-tests/20raid5journal
-tests/21raid5cache
-tests/ToTest
-tests/env-ddf-template
-tests/env-imsm-template
-tests/func.sh
-tests/imsm-grow-template
-tests/utils
-udev-md-clustered-confirm-device.rules
-udev-md-raid-arrays.rules
-udev-md-raid-assembly.rules
-udev-md-raid-creating.rules
-udev-md-raid-safe-timeouts.rules
-util.c
-uuid.c
-xmalloc.c
diff --git a/makedist b/makedist
deleted file mode 100755
index 0c4b39e..0000000
--- a/makedist
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,96 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-# avoid silly sorting
-export LANG=C
-arg=$1
-target=~/public_html/source/mdadm
-if [ " $arg" = " test" ]
-then
-  target=/tmp/mdadm-test
-  rm -rf $target
-  mkdir -p $target
-fi
-if [ -d $target ]
-then :
-else echo $target is not a directory
-     exit 2
-fi
-set `grep '^#define VERSION' ReadMe.c `
-version=`echo $3 | sed -e 's/"//g'`
-grep "^.TH MDADM 8 .. v$version" mdadm.8.in > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
- {
-   echo mdadm.8.in does not mention version $version.
-   exit 1
- }
-grep "^.TH MDMON 8 .. v$version" mdmon.8 > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
- {
-   echo mdmon.8 does not mention version $version.
-   exit 1
- }
-rpmv=`echo $version | tr - _`
-grep "^Version: *$rpmv$" mdadm.spec > /dev/null 2>&1 ||
- {
-   echo mdadm.spec does not mention version $version.
-   exit 1
- }
-if [ -f ANNOUNCE-$version ]
-then :
-else
-   echo ANNOUNCE-$version does not exist
-   exit 1
-fi
-if grep "^ANNOUNCE-$version\$" inventory
-then :
-else { cat inventory ; echo ANNOUNCE-$version ; } | sort -o inventory
-fi
-
-echo version = $version
-base=mdadm-$rpmv.tar.gz
-if [ " $arg" != " diff" ]
-then
-  if [ -f $target/$base ]
-  then
-    echo $target/$base exists.
-    exit 1
-  fi
-  trap "rm $target/$base; exit" 1 2 3
-  git archive --prefix=mdadm-$rpmv/ HEAD | gzip --best > $target/$base
-  chmod a+r $target/$base
-  ls -l $target/$base
-  if tar tzf $target/$base | sed 's,[^/]*/,,' | sort | diff -u inventory -
-  then : correct files found
-  else echo "Extra files, or inventory is out-of-date"
-       rm $target/$base
-       exit 1
-  fi
-  rpmbuild -ta $target/$base || exit 1
-  find ~/rpmbuild/RPMS -name "*mdadm-$version-*" \
-     -exec cp {} $target/RPM \;
-  cp ANNOUNCE-$version $target/ANNOUNCE
-  cp ChangeLog $target/ChangeLog
-  if [ " $arg" != " test" ]
-  then
-    echo -n "Confirm signing this release? "
-    read a
-    if [ " $a" != " y" ]; then echo OK - bye. ; exit 1; fi
-    if zcat $target/$base | gpg -ba > $target/$base.sign && gpg -ba $target/ANNOUNCE
-    then
-      kup put $target/$base  $target/$base.sign \
-	  /pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-$version.tar.gz
-      kup put $target/ANNOUNCE $target/ANNOUNCE.asc /pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/ANNOUNCE
-    else
-      echo signing failed
-      exit 1
-    fi
-  fi
-else
-  if [ ! -f $target/$base ]
-  then
-    echo $target/$base does not exist.
-    exit 1
-  fi
-  ( cd .. ; ln -s mdadm.v2 mdadm-$version ; tar chf - --exclude=.git --exclude="TAGS" --exclude='*,v' --exclude='*~' --exclude='*.o' --exclude mdadm --exclude=mdadm'.[^ch0-9]' --exclude=RCS mdadm-$version ; rm mdadm-$version ) | gzip --best > /var/tmp/mdadm-new.tgz
-  mkdir /var/tmp/mdadm-old ; zcat $target/$base | ( cd /var/tmp/mdadm-old ; tar xf - )
-  mkdir /var/tmp/mdadm-new ; zcat /var/tmp/mdadm-new.tgz | ( cd /var/tmp/mdadm-new ; tar xf - )
-  diff -ru /var/tmp/mdadm-old /var/tmp/mdadm-new
-  rm -rf /var/tmp/mdadm-old /var/tmp/mdadm-new /var/tmp/mdadm-new.tgz
-fi
diff --git a/mdadm.8.in b/mdadm.8.in
index 96a4a08..9ba6682 100644
--- a/mdadm.8.in
+++ b/mdadm.8.in
@@ -3179,7 +3179,7 @@ environment.  This can be useful for testing or for disaster
 recovery.  You should be aware that interoperability may be
 compromised by setting this value.
 
-These change can also be suppressed by adding 
+These change can also be suppressed by adding
 .B mdadm.imsm.test=1
 to the kernel command line. This makes it easy to test IMSM
 code in a virtual machine that doesn't have IMSM virtual hardware.
@@ -3454,6 +3454,25 @@ is any string.  These names are supported by
 since version 3.3 provided they are enabled in
 .IR mdadm.conf .
 
+.SH UNDERSTANDING OUTPUT
+
+.TP
+EXAMINE
+
+.TP
+.B checkpoint
+Checkpoint value is reported when array is performing some action including
+resync, recovery or reshape. Checkpoints allow resuming action from certain
+point if it was interrupted.
+
+Checkpoint is reported as combination of two values: current migration unit
+and number of blocks per unit. By multiplying those values and dividing by
+array size checkpoint progress percentage can be obtained in relation to
+current progress reported in /proc/mdstat. Checkpoint is also related to (and
+sometimes based on) sysfs entry sync_completed but depending on action units
+may differ. Even if units are the same, it should not be expected that
+checkpoint and sync_completed will be exact match nor updated simultaneously.
+
 .SH NOTE
 .I mdadm
 was previously known as
diff --git a/mdadm.conf.5.in b/mdadm.conf.5.in
index 787e51e..14302a9 100644
--- a/mdadm.conf.5.in
+++ b/mdadm.conf.5.in
@@ -636,6 +636,20 @@ If multiple
 .B MINITORDELAY
 lines are provided, only first non-zero value is considered.
 
+.TP
+.B ENCRYPTION_NO_VERIFY
+The
+.B ENCRYPTION_NO_VERIFY
+disables encryption verification for devices with particular encryption support detected.
+Currently, only verification of SATA OPAL encryption can be disabled.
+It does not disable ATA security encryption verification.
+Currently effective only for
+.I IMSM
+metadata.
+Available parameter
+.I "sata_opal".
+
+
 .SH FILES
 
 .SS {CONFFILE}
@@ -744,6 +758,8 @@ SYSFS uuid=bead5eb6:31c17a27:da120ba2:7dfda40d group_thread_cnt=4
 sync_speed_max=1000000
 .br
 MONITORDELAY 60
+.br
+ENCRYPTION_NO_VERIFY sata_opal
 
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR mdadm (8),
diff --git a/mdadm.h b/mdadm.h
index 1f28b3e..2640b39 100644
--- a/mdadm.h
+++ b/mdadm.h
@@ -430,8 +430,10 @@ struct createinfo {
 };
 
 struct spare_criteria {
+	bool criteria_set;
 	unsigned long long min_size;
 	unsigned int sector_size;
+	struct dev_policy *pols;
 };
 
 typedef enum mdadm_status {
@@ -776,6 +778,8 @@ enum sysfs_read_flags {
 
 #define SYSFS_MAX_BUF_SIZE 64
 
+extern void sysfs_get_container_devnm(struct mdinfo *mdi, char *buf);
+
 /* If fd >= 0, get the array it is open on,
  * else use devnm.
  */
@@ -807,7 +811,7 @@ extern int sysfs_attribute_available(struct mdinfo *sra, struct mdinfo *dev,
 extern int sysfs_get_str(struct mdinfo *sra, struct mdinfo *dev,
 			 char *name, char *val, int size);
 extern int sysfs_set_safemode(struct mdinfo *sra, unsigned long ms);
-extern int sysfs_set_array(struct mdinfo *info, int vers);
+extern int sysfs_set_array(struct mdinfo *info);
 extern int sysfs_add_disk(struct mdinfo *sra, struct mdinfo *sd, int resume);
 extern int sysfs_disk_to_scsi_id(int fd, __u32 *id);
 extern int sysfs_unique_holder(char *devnm, long rdev);
@@ -849,6 +853,7 @@ extern int restore_stripes(int *dest, unsigned long long *offsets,
 			   int source, unsigned long long read_offset,
 			   unsigned long long start, unsigned long long length,
 			   char *src_buf);
+extern bool sysfs_is_libata_allow_tpm_enabled(const int verbose);
 
 #ifndef Sendmail
 #define Sendmail "/usr/lib/sendmail -t"
@@ -937,6 +942,23 @@ struct reshape {
 	unsigned long long new_size; /* New size of array in sectors */
 };
 
+/**
+ * struct dev_policy - Data structure for policy management.
+ * @next: pointer to next dev_policy.
+ * @name: policy name, category.
+ * @metadata: the metadata type it affects.
+ * @value: value of the policy.
+ *
+ * The functions to manipulate dev_policy lists do not free elements, so they must be statically
+ * allocated. @name and @metadata can be compared by address.
+ */
+typedef struct dev_policy {
+	struct dev_policy *next;
+	char *name;
+	const char *metadata;
+	const char *value;
+} dev_policy_t;
+
 /* A superswitch provides entry point to a metadata handler.
  *
  * The superswitch primarily operates on some "metadata" that
@@ -1115,10 +1137,9 @@ extern struct superswitch {
 	 * Return spare criteria for array:
 	 * - minimum disk size can be used in array;
 	 * - sector size can be used in array.
-	 * Return values: 0 - for success and -EINVAL on error.
 	 */
-	int (*get_spare_criteria)(struct supertype *st,
-				  struct spare_criteria *sc);
+	mdadm_status_t (*get_spare_criteria)(struct supertype *st, char *mddev_path,
+					     struct spare_criteria *sc);
 	/* Find somewhere to put a bitmap - possibly auto-size it - and
 	 * update the metadata to record this.  The array may be newly
 	 * created, in which case data_size may be updated, or it might
@@ -1166,6 +1187,25 @@ extern struct superswitch {
 				 char *subdev, unsigned long long *freesize,
 				 int consistency_policy, int verbose);
 
+	/**
+	 * test_and_add_drive_policies() - test new and add custom policies from metadata handler.
+	 * @pols: list of currently recorded policies.
+	 * @disk_fd: file descriptor of the device to check.
+	 * @verbose: verbose flag.
+	 *
+	 * Used by IMSM to verify all drives in container/array, against requirements not recored
+	 * in superblock, like controller type for IMSM. It should check all drives even if
+	 * they are not actually used, because mdmon or kernel are free to use any drive assigned to
+	 * container automatically.
+	 *
+	 * Generating and comparison methods belong to metadata handler. It is not mandatory to be
+	 * implemented.
+	 *
+	 * Return: MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS is expected on success.
+	 */
+	mdadm_status_t (*test_and_add_drive_policies)(dev_policy_t **pols, int disk_fd,
+						      const int verbose);
+
 	/* Return a linked list of 'mdinfo' structures for all arrays
 	 * in the container.  For non-containers, it is like
 	 * getinfo_super with an allocated mdinfo.*/
@@ -1247,21 +1287,6 @@ extern struct superswitch {
 	 */
 	struct mdinfo *(*activate_spare)(struct active_array *a,
 					 struct metadata_update **updates);
-	/*
-	 * Return statically allocated string that represents metadata specific
-	 * controller domain of the disk. The domain is used in disk domain
-	 * matching functions. Disks belong to the same domain if the they have
-	 * the same domain from mdadm.conf and belong the same metadata domain.
-	 * Returning NULL or not providing this handler means that metadata
-	 * does not distinguish the differences between disks that belong to
-	 * different controllers. They are in the domain specified by
-	 * configuration file (mdadm.conf).
-	 * In case when the metadata has the notion of domains based on disk
-	 * it shall return NULL for disks that do not belong to the controller
-	 * the supported domains. Such disks will form another domain and won't
-	 * be mixed with supported ones.
-	 */
-	const char *(*get_disk_controller_domain)(const char *path);
 
 	/* for external backup area */
 	int (*recover_backup)(struct supertype *st, struct mdinfo *info);
@@ -1368,27 +1393,8 @@ extern struct supertype *dup_super(struct supertype *st);
 extern int get_dev_size(int fd, char *dname, unsigned long long *sizep);
 extern int get_dev_sector_size(int fd, char *dname, unsigned int *sectsizep);
 extern int must_be_container(int fd);
-extern int dev_size_from_id(dev_t id, unsigned long long *size);
-extern int dev_sector_size_from_id(dev_t id, unsigned int *size);
 void wait_for(char *dev, int fd);
 
-/*
- * Data structures for policy management.
- * Each device can have a policy structure that lists
- * various name/value pairs each possibly with a metadata associated.
- * The policy list is sorted by name/value/metadata
- */
-struct dev_policy {
-	struct dev_policy *next;
-	char *name;	/* None of these strings are allocated.  They are
-			 * all just references to strings which are known
-			 * to exist elsewhere.
-			 * name and metadata can be compared by address equality.
-			 */
-	const char *metadata;
-	const char *value;
-};
-
 extern char pol_act[], pol_domain[], pol_metadata[], pol_auto[];
 
 /* iterate over the sublist starting at list, having the same
@@ -1430,10 +1436,16 @@ extern struct dev_policy *disk_policy(struct mdinfo *disk);
 extern struct dev_policy *devid_policy(int devid);
 extern void dev_policy_free(struct dev_policy *p);
 
-//extern void pol_new(struct dev_policy **pol, char *name, char *val, char *metadata);
 extern void pol_add(struct dev_policy **pol, char *name, char *val, char *metadata);
 extern struct dev_policy *pol_find(struct dev_policy *pol, char *name);
 
+extern mdadm_status_t drive_test_and_add_policies(struct supertype *st, dev_policy_t **pols,
+						  int fd, const int verbose);
+extern mdadm_status_t sysfs_test_and_add_drive_policies(struct supertype *st, dev_policy_t **pols,
+							struct mdinfo *mdi, const int verbose);
+extern mdadm_status_t mddev_test_and_add_drive_policies(struct supertype *st, dev_policy_t **pols,
+							int array_fd, const int verbose);
+
 enum policy_action {
 	act_default,
 	act_include,
@@ -1661,6 +1673,7 @@ extern char *conf_get_program(void);
 extern char *conf_get_homehost(int *require_homehostp);
 extern char *conf_get_homecluster(void);
 extern int conf_get_monitor_delay(void);
+extern bool conf_get_sata_opal_encryption_no_verify(void);
 extern char *conf_line(FILE *file);
 extern char *conf_word(FILE *file, int allow_key);
 extern void print_quoted(char *str);
@@ -1685,8 +1698,7 @@ extern const int uuid_zero[4];
 extern int same_uuid(int a[4], int b[4], int swapuuid);
 extern void copy_uuid(void *a, int b[4], int swapuuid);
 extern char *__fname_from_uuid(int id[4], int swap, char *buf, char sep);
-extern char *fname_from_uuid(struct supertype *st,
-			     struct mdinfo *info, char *buf, char sep);
+extern char *fname_from_uuid(struct mdinfo *info, char *buf);
 extern unsigned long calc_csum(void *super, int bytes);
 extern int enough(int level, int raid_disks, int layout, int clean,
 		   char *avail);
@@ -1708,6 +1720,9 @@ extern int assemble_container_content(struct supertype *st, int mdfd,
 #define	INCR_UNSAFE	2
 #define	INCR_ALREADY	4
 #define	INCR_YES	8
+
+extern bool devid_matches_criteria(struct supertype *st, dev_t devid, struct spare_criteria *sc);
+extern bool disk_fd_matches_criteria(struct supertype *st, int disk_fd, struct spare_criteria *sc);
 extern struct mdinfo *container_choose_spares(struct supertype *st,
 					      struct spare_criteria *criteria,
 					      struct domainlist *domlist,
@@ -1856,11 +1871,10 @@ static inline char *to_subarray(struct mdstat_ent *ent, char *container)
  */
 static inline sighandler_t signal_s(int sig, sighandler_t handler)
 {
-	struct sigaction new_act;
-	struct sigaction old_act;
+	struct sigaction new_act = {0};
+	struct sigaction old_act = {0};
 
 	new_act.sa_handler = handler;
-	new_act.sa_flags = 0;
 
 	if (sigaction(sig, &new_act, &old_act) == 0)
 		return old_act.sa_handler;
@@ -1899,6 +1913,8 @@ static inline int xasprintf(char **strp, const char *fmt, ...) {
 
 #define pr_info(fmt, args...) printf("%s: "fmt, Name, ##args)
 
+#define pr_vrb(fmt, arg...) ((void)(verbose && pr_err(fmt, ##arg)))
+
 void *xmalloc(size_t len);
 void *xrealloc(void *ptr, size_t len);
 void *xcalloc(size_t num, size_t size);
diff --git a/mdadm.spec b/mdadm.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index 12e7859..0000000
--- a/mdadm.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,47 +0,0 @@
-Summary:     mdadm is used for controlling Linux md devices (aka RAID arrays)
-Name:        mdadm
-Version:     4.3
-Release:     1
-Source:      https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/raid/mdadm/mdadm-%{version}.tar.gz
-URL:         https://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm
-License:     GPL
-Group:       Utilities/System
-BuildRoot:   %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
-Obsoletes:   mdctl
-
-%description
-mdadm is a program that can be used to create, manage, and monitor
-Linux MD (Software RAID) devices.
-
-%prep
-%setup -q
-# we want to install in /sbin, not /usr/sbin...
-%define _exec_prefix %{nil}
-
-%build
-# This is a debatable issue. The author of this RPM spec file feels that
-# people who install RPMs (especially given that the default RPM options
-# will strip the binary) are not going to be running gdb against the
-# program.
-make CXFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS" SYSCONFDIR="%{_sysconfdir}"
-
-%install
-make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT MANDIR=%{_mandir} BINDIR=%{_sbindir} install
-install -D -m644 mdadm.conf-example $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_sysconfdir}/mdadm.conf
-
-%clean
-rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
-
-%files
-%defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc TODO ChangeLog mdadm.conf-example COPYING
-%{_sbindir}/mdadm
-%{_sbindir}/mdmon
-/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/01-md-raid-creating.rules
-/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/63-md-raid-arrays.rules
-/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/64-md-raid-assembly.rules
-/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/69-md-clustered-confirm-device.rules
-%config(noreplace,missingok)/%{_sysconfdir}/mdadm.conf
-%{_mandir}/man*/md*
-
-%changelog
diff --git a/mdmon.c b/mdmon.c
index a2038fe..5fdb5cd 100644
--- a/mdmon.c
+++ b/mdmon.c
@@ -302,12 +302,12 @@ static int mdmon(char *devnm, int must_fork, int takeover);
 int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 {
 	char *container_name = NULL;
-	char *devnm = NULL;
 	int status = 0;
 	int opt;
 	int all = 0;
 	int takeover = 0;
 	int dofork = 1;
+	int mdfd = -1;
 	bool help = false;
 	static struct option options[] = {
 		{"all", 0, NULL, 'a'},
@@ -410,19 +410,20 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
 		free_mdstat(mdstat);
 
 		return status;
-	} else {
-		int mdfd = open_mddev(container_name, 0);
-		devnm = fd2devnm(mdfd);
+	}
+
+	mdfd = open_mddev(container_name, 0);
+	if (is_fd_valid(mdfd)) {
+		char *devnm = fd2devnm(mdfd);
 
 		close(mdfd);
-	}
 
-	if (!devnm) {
-		pr_err("%s is not a valid md device name\n",
-			container_name);
-		return 1;
+		if (devnm)
+			return mdmon(devnm, dofork && do_fork(), takeover);
 	}
-	return mdmon(devnm, dofork && do_fork(), takeover);
+
+	pr_err("%s is not a valid md device name\n", container_name);
+	return 1;
 }
 
 static int mdmon(char *devnm, int must_fork, int takeover)
diff --git a/mkinitramfs b/mkinitramfs
deleted file mode 100644
index c6275dd..0000000
--- a/mkinitramfs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,55 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# make sure we are being run in the right directory...
-if [ -f mkinitramfs ]
-then :
-else
-  echo >&2 mkinitramfs must be run from the mdadm source directory.
-  exit 1
-fi
-if [ -f /bin/busybox ]
-then : good, it exists
-  case `file /bin/busybox` in
-   *statically* ) : good ;;
-   * ) echo >&2 mkinitramfs: /bin/busybox is not statically linked: cannot proceed.
-       exit 1
-  esac
-else
-  echo >&2 "mkinitramfs: /bin/busybox doesn't exist - please install it statically linked."
-    exit 1
-fi
-
-rm -rf initramfs
-mkdir initramfs
-mkdir initramfs/bin
-make mdadm.static
-cp mdadm.static initramfs/bin/mdadm
-cp /bin/busybox initramfs/bin/busybox
-ln initramfs/bin/busybox initramfs/bin/sh
-cat <<- END > initramfs/init
-	#!/bin/sh
-
-	echo 'Auto-assembling boot md array'
-	mkdir /proc
-	mount -t proc proc /proc
-	if [ -n "$rootuuid" ]
-	then arg=--uuid=$rootuuid
-	elif [ -n "$mdminor" ]
-	then arg=--super-minor=$mdminor
-	else arg=--super-minor=0
-	fi
-	echo "Using $arg"
-	mdadm -Acpartitions $arg --auto=part /dev/mda
-	cd /
-	mount /dev/mda1 /root ||  mount /dev/mda /root
-	umount /proc
-	cd /root
-	exec chroot . /sbin/init < /dev/console > /dev/console 2>&1
-END
-chmod +x initramfs/init
-
-(cd initramfs
- find init bin | cpio -o -H newc | gzip --best
-) > init.cpio.gz
-rm -rf initramfs
-ls -l init.cpio.gz
diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
index 4acec67..be0bec7 100644
--- a/monitor.c
+++ b/monitor.c
@@ -412,6 +412,7 @@ static int read_and_act(struct active_array *a, fd_set *fds)
 	int ret = 0;
 	int count = 0;
 	struct timeval tv;
+	bool write_checkpoint = false;
 
 	a->next_state = bad_word;
 	a->next_action = bad_action;
@@ -564,52 +565,40 @@ static int read_and_act(struct active_array *a, fd_set *fds)
 		}
 	}
 
-	/* Check for recovery checkpoint notifications.  We need to be a
-	 * minimum distance away from the last checkpoint to prevent
-	 * over checkpointing.  Note reshape checkpointing is handled
-	 * in the second branch.
-	 */
-	if (sync_completed > a->last_checkpoint &&
-	    sync_completed - a->last_checkpoint > a->info.component_size >> 4 &&
-	    a->curr_action > reshape) {
-		/* A (non-reshape) sync_action has reached a checkpoint.
-		 * Record the updated position in the metadata
-		 */
-		a->last_checkpoint = sync_completed;
-		a->container->ss->set_array_state(a, a->curr_state <= clean);
-	} else if ((a->curr_action == idle && a->prev_action == reshape) ||
-		   (a->curr_action == reshape &&
-		    sync_completed > a->last_checkpoint)) {
-		/* Reshape has progressed or completed so we need to
-		 * update the array state - and possibly the array size
-		 */
+	/* Update reshape checkpoint, depending if it finished or progressed */
+	if (a->curr_action == idle && a->prev_action == reshape) {
+		char buf[SYSFS_MAX_BUF_SIZE];
+
 		if (sync_completed != 0)
 			a->last_checkpoint = sync_completed;
-		/* We might need to update last_checkpoint depending on
-		 * the reason that reshape finished.
-		 * if array reshape is really finished:
-		 *        set check point to the end, this allows
-		 *        set_array_state() to finalize reshape in metadata
-		 * if reshape if broken: do not set checkpoint to the end
-		 *        this allows for reshape restart from checkpoint
+
+		/*
+		 * If reshape really finished, set checkpoint to the end to finalize it.
+		 * Do not set checkpoint if reshape is broken.
+		 * Reshape will restart from last checkpoint.
 		 */
-		if ((a->curr_action != reshape) &&
-		    (a->prev_action == reshape)) {
-			char buf[SYSFS_MAX_BUF_SIZE];
-			if ((sysfs_get_str(&a->info, NULL,
-					  "reshape_position",
-					  buf,
-					  sizeof(buf)) >= 0) &&
-			     str_is_none(buf) == true)
+		if (sysfs_get_str(&a->info, NULL, "reshape_position", buf, sizeof(buf)) >= 0)
+			if (str_is_none(buf) == true)
 				a->last_checkpoint = a->info.component_size;
-		}
-		a->container->ss->set_array_state(a, a->curr_state <= clean);
-		a->last_checkpoint = sync_completed;
+
+		write_checkpoint = true;
 	}
 
-	if (sync_completed > a->last_checkpoint)
+	if (a->curr_action >= reshape && sync_completed > a->last_checkpoint) {
+		/* Update checkpoint if neither reshape nor idle action */
 		a->last_checkpoint = sync_completed;
 
+		write_checkpoint = true;
+	}
+
+	/* Save checkpoint */
+	if (write_checkpoint) {
+		a->container->ss->set_array_state(a, a->curr_state <= clean);
+
+		if (a->curr_action <= reshape)
+			a->last_checkpoint = sync_completed;
+	}
+
 	if (sync_completed >= a->info.component_size)
 		a->last_checkpoint = 0;
 
diff --git a/platform-intel.h b/platform-intel.h
index ce29d3d..3c2bc59 100644
--- a/platform-intel.h
+++ b/platform-intel.h
@@ -262,7 +262,6 @@ int disk_attached_to_hba(int fd, const char *hba_path);
 int devt_attached_to_hba(dev_t dev, const char *hba_path);
 char *devt_to_devpath(dev_t dev, int dev_level, char *buf);
 int path_attached_to_hba(const char *disk_path, const char *hba_path);
-const char *get_sys_dev_type(enum sys_dev_type);
 const struct orom_entry *get_orom_entry_by_device_id(__u16 dev_id);
 const struct imsm_orom *get_orom_by_device_id(__u16 device_id);
 struct sys_dev *device_by_id(__u16 device_id);
diff --git a/policy.c b/policy.c
index eee9ef6..dfaafdc 100644
--- a/policy.c
+++ b/policy.c
@@ -365,7 +365,6 @@ struct dev_policy *path_policy(char **paths, char *type)
 {
 	struct pol_rule *rules;
 	struct dev_policy *pol = NULL;
-	int i;
 
 	rules = config_rules;
 
@@ -380,23 +379,104 @@ struct dev_policy *path_policy(char **paths, char *type)
 		rules = rules->next;
 	}
 
-	/* Now add any metadata-specific internal knowledge
-	 * about this path
-	 */
-	for (i=0; paths && paths[0] && superlist[i]; i++)
-		if (superlist[i]->get_disk_controller_domain) {
-			const char *d =
-				superlist[i]->get_disk_controller_domain(
-					paths[0]);
-			if (d)
-				pol_new(&pol, pol_domain, d, superlist[i]->name);
-		}
-
 	pol_sort(&pol);
 	pol_dedup(pol);
 	return pol;
 }
 
+/**
+ * drive_test_and_add_policies() - get policies for drive and add them to pols.
+ * @st: supertype.
+ * @pols: pointer to pointer of first list entry, cannot be NULL, may point to NULL.
+ * @fd: device descriptor.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * If supertype doesn't support this functionality return success. Use metadata handler to get
+ * policies.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t drive_test_and_add_policies(struct supertype *st, dev_policy_t **pols, int fd,
+					   const int verbose)
+{
+	if (!st->ss->test_and_add_drive_policies)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	if (st->ss->test_and_add_drive_policies(pols, fd, verbose) == MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS) {
+		/* After successful call list cannot be empty */
+		assert(*pols);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+}
+
+/**
+ * sysfs_test_and_add_policies() - get policies for mddev and add them to pols.
+ * @st: supertype.
+ * @pols: pointer to pointer of first list entry, cannot be NULL, may point to NULL.
+ * @mdi: mdinfo describes the MD array, must have GET_DISKS option.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * If supertype doesn't support this functionality return success. To get policies, all disks
+ * connected to mddev are analyzed.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t sysfs_test_and_add_drive_policies(struct supertype *st, dev_policy_t **pols,
+						 struct mdinfo *mdi, const int verbose)
+{
+	struct mdinfo *sd;
+
+	if (!st->ss->test_and_add_drive_policies)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	for (sd = mdi->devs; sd; sd = sd->next) {
+		char *devpath = map_dev(sd->disk.major, sd->disk.minor, 0);
+		int fd = dev_open(devpath, O_RDONLY);
+		int rv;
+
+		if (!is_fd_valid(fd)) {
+			pr_err("Cannot open fd for %s\n", devpath);
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+		}
+
+		rv = drive_test_and_add_policies(st, pols, fd, verbose);
+		close(fd);
+
+		if (rv)
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * mddev_test_and_add_policies() - get policies for mddev and add them to pols.
+ * @st: supertype.
+ * @pols: pointer to pointer of first list entry, cannot be NULL, may point to NULL.
+ * @array_fd: MD device descriptor.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * If supertype doesn't support this functionality return success. Use fd to extract disks.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t mddev_test_and_add_drive_policies(struct supertype *st, dev_policy_t **pols,
+						 int array_fd, const int verbose)
+{
+	struct mdinfo *sra;
+	int ret;
+
+	if (!st->ss->test_and_add_drive_policies)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	sra = sysfs_read(array_fd, NULL, GET_DEVS);
+	if (!sra) {
+		pr_err("Cannot load sysfs for %s\n", fd2devnm(array_fd));
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	ret = sysfs_test_and_add_drive_policies(st, pols, sra, verbose);
+
+	sysfs_free(sra);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 void pol_add(struct dev_policy **pol,
 		    char *name, char *val,
 		    char *metadata)
@@ -679,7 +759,6 @@ int domain_test(struct domainlist *dom, struct dev_policy *pol,
 	 *  1:  has domains, all match
 	 */
 	int found_any = -1;
-	int has_one_domain = 1;
 	struct dev_policy *p;
 
 	pol = pol_find(pol, pol_domain);
@@ -689,9 +768,6 @@ int domain_test(struct domainlist *dom, struct dev_policy *pol,
 			dom = dom->next;
 		if (!dom || strcmp(dom->dom, p->value) != 0)
 			return 0;
-		if (has_one_domain && metadata && strcmp(metadata, "imsm") == 0)
-			found_any = -1;
-		has_one_domain = 0;
 	}
 	return found_any;
 }
diff --git a/super-ddf.c b/super-ddf.c
index 7571e3b..21426c7 100644
--- a/super-ddf.c
+++ b/super-ddf.c
@@ -1617,7 +1617,7 @@ static void brief_examine_super_ddf(struct supertype *st, int verbose)
 	struct mdinfo info;
 	char nbuf[64];
 	getinfo_super_ddf(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 
 	printf("ARRAY metadata=ddf UUID=%s\n", nbuf + 5);
 }
@@ -1632,7 +1632,7 @@ static void brief_examine_subarrays_ddf(struct supertype *st, int verbose)
 	unsigned int i;
 	char nbuf[64];
 	getinfo_super_ddf(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < be16_to_cpu(ddf->virt->max_vdes); i++) {
 		struct virtual_entry *ve = &ddf->virt->entries[i];
@@ -1645,7 +1645,7 @@ static void brief_examine_subarrays_ddf(struct supertype *st, int verbose)
 		ddf->currentconf =&vcl;
 		vcl.vcnum = i;
 		uuid_from_super_ddf(st, info.uuid);
-		fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf1, ':');
+		fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf1);
 		_ddf_array_name(namebuf, ddf, i);
 		printf("ARRAY%s%s container=%s member=%d UUID=%s\n",
 		       namebuf[0] == '\0' ? "" : " " DEV_MD_DIR, namebuf,
@@ -1658,7 +1658,7 @@ static void export_examine_super_ddf(struct supertype *st)
 	struct mdinfo info;
 	char nbuf[64];
 	getinfo_super_ddf(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf("MD_METADATA=ddf\n");
 	printf("MD_LEVEL=container\n");
 	printf("MD_UUID=%s\n", nbuf+5);
@@ -1798,7 +1798,7 @@ static void brief_detail_super_ddf(struct supertype *st, char *subarray)
 		return;
 	else
 		uuid_of_ddf_subarray(ddf, vcnum, info.uuid);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf,':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf(" UUID=%s", nbuf + 5);
 }
 
@@ -5162,6 +5162,7 @@ struct superswitch super_ddf = {
 	.default_geometry = default_geometry_ddf,
 
 	.external	= 1,
+	.swapuuid	= 0,
 
 /* for mdmon */
 	.open_new       = ddf_open_new,
diff --git a/super-intel.c b/super-intel.c
index dbea235..1faab60 100644
--- a/super-intel.c
+++ b/super-intel.c
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@
 #include <scsi/sg.h>
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <dirent.h>
+#include "drive_encryption.h"
 
 /* MPB == Metadata Parameter Block */
 #define MPB_SIGNATURE "Intel Raid ISM Cfg Sig. "
@@ -393,8 +394,6 @@ struct md_list {
 	struct md_list *next;
 };
 
-#define pr_vrb(fmt, arg...) (void) (verbose && pr_err(fmt, ##arg))
-
 static __u8 migr_type(struct imsm_dev *dev)
 {
 	if (dev->vol.migr_type == MIGR_VERIFY &&
@@ -1736,48 +1735,6 @@ static __u32 imsm_min_reserved_sectors(struct intel_super *super)
 	return  (remainder < rv) ? remainder : rv;
 }
 
-/*
- * Return minimum size of a spare and sector size
- * that can be used in this array
- */
-int get_spare_criteria_imsm(struct supertype *st, struct spare_criteria *c)
-{
-	struct intel_super *super = st->sb;
-	struct dl *dl;
-	struct extent *e;
-	int i;
-	unsigned long long size = 0;
-
-	c->min_size = 0;
-	c->sector_size = 0;
-
-	if (!super)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	/* find first active disk in array */
-	dl = super->disks;
-	while (dl && (is_failed(&dl->disk) || dl->index == -1))
-		dl = dl->next;
-	if (!dl)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	/* find last lba used by subarrays */
-	e = get_extents(super, dl, 0);
-	if (!e)
-		return -EINVAL;
-	for (i = 0; e[i].size; i++)
-		continue;
-	if (i > 0)
-		size = e[i-1].start + e[i-1].size;
-	free(e);
-
-	/* add the amount of space needed for metadata */
-	size += imsm_min_reserved_sectors(super);
-
-	c->min_size = size * 512;
-	c->sector_size = super->sector_size;
-
-	return 0;
-}
-
 static bool is_gen_migration(struct imsm_dev *dev);
 
 #define IMSM_4K_DIV 8
@@ -2259,7 +2216,7 @@ static void examine_super_imsm(struct supertype *st, char *homehost)
 	else
 		printf("not supported\n");
 	getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf("           UUID : %s\n", nbuf + 5);
 	sum = __le32_to_cpu(mpb->check_sum);
 	printf("       Checksum : %08x %s\n", sum,
@@ -2284,7 +2241,7 @@ static void examine_super_imsm(struct supertype *st, char *homehost)
 
 		super->current_vol = i;
 		getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-		fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+		fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 		print_imsm_dev(super, dev, nbuf + 5, super->disks->index);
 	}
 	for (i = 0; i < mpb->num_disks; i++) {
@@ -2309,7 +2266,7 @@ static void brief_examine_super_imsm(struct supertype *st, int verbose)
 	char nbuf[64];
 
 	getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf("ARRAY metadata=imsm UUID=%s\n", nbuf + 5);
 }
 
@@ -2326,13 +2283,13 @@ static void brief_examine_subarrays_imsm(struct supertype *st, int verbose)
 		return;
 
 	getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	for (i = 0; i < super->anchor->num_raid_devs; i++) {
 		struct imsm_dev *dev = get_imsm_dev(super, i);
 
 		super->current_vol = i;
 		getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-		fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf1, ':');
+		fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf1);
 		printf("ARRAY " DEV_MD_DIR "%.16s container=%s member=%d UUID=%s\n",
 		       dev->volume, nbuf + 5, i, nbuf1 + 5);
 	}
@@ -2346,7 +2303,7 @@ static void export_examine_super_imsm(struct supertype *st)
 	char nbuf[64];
 
 	getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf("MD_METADATA=imsm\n");
 	printf("MD_LEVEL=container\n");
 	printf("MD_UUID=%s\n", nbuf+5);
@@ -2366,7 +2323,7 @@ static void detail_super_imsm(struct supertype *st, char *homehost,
 		super->current_vol = strtoul(subarray, NULL, 10);
 
 	getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf("\n              UUID : %s\n", nbuf + 5);
 
 	super->current_vol = temp_vol;
@@ -2383,7 +2340,7 @@ static void brief_detail_super_imsm(struct supertype *st, char *subarray)
 		super->current_vol = strtoul(subarray, NULL, 10);
 
 	getinfo_super_imsm(st, &info, NULL);
-	fname_from_uuid(st, &info, nbuf, ':');
+	fname_from_uuid(&info, nbuf);
 	printf(" UUID=%s", nbuf + 5);
 
 	super->current_vol = temp_vol;
@@ -2393,12 +2350,41 @@ static int imsm_read_serial(int fd, char *devname, __u8 *serial,
 			    size_t serial_buf_len);
 static void fd2devname(int fd, char *name);
 
-static int ahci_enumerate_ports(const char *hba_path, int port_count, int host_base, int verbose)
+void print_encryption_information(int disk_fd, enum sys_dev_type hba_type)
+{
+	struct encryption_information information = {0};
+	mdadm_status_t status = MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+	const char *indent = "                  ";
+
+	switch (hba_type) {
+	case SYS_DEV_VMD:
+	case SYS_DEV_NVME:
+		status = get_nvme_opal_encryption_information(disk_fd, &information, 1);
+		break;
+	case SYS_DEV_SATA:
+	case SYS_DEV_SATA_VMD:
+		status = get_ata_encryption_information(disk_fd, &information, 1);
+		break;
+	default:
+		return;
+	}
+
+	if (status) {
+		pr_err("Failed to get drive encryption information.\n");
+		return;
+	}
+
+	printf("%sEncryption(Ability|Status): %s|%s\n", indent,
+	       get_encryption_ability_string(information.ability),
+	       get_encryption_status_string(information.status));
+}
+
+static int ahci_enumerate_ports(struct sys_dev *hba, int port_count, int host_base, int verbose)
 {
 	/* dump an unsorted list of devices attached to AHCI Intel storage
 	 * controller, as well as non-connected ports
 	 */
-	int hba_len = strlen(hba_path) + 1;
+	int hba_len = strlen(hba->path) + 1;
 	struct dirent *ent;
 	DIR *dir;
 	char *path = NULL;
@@ -2434,7 +2420,7 @@ static int ahci_enumerate_ports(const char *hba_path, int port_count, int host_b
 		path = devt_to_devpath(makedev(major, minor), 1, NULL);
 		if (!path)
 			continue;
-		if (!path_attached_to_hba(path, hba_path)) {
+		if (!path_attached_to_hba(path, hba->path)) {
 			free(path);
 			path = NULL;
 			continue;
@@ -2537,6 +2523,8 @@ static int ahci_enumerate_ports(const char *hba_path, int port_count, int host_b
 				printf(" (%s)\n", buf);
 			else
 				printf(" ()\n");
+
+			print_encryption_information(fd, hba->type);
 			close(fd);
 		}
 		free(path);
@@ -2601,6 +2589,8 @@ static int print_nvme_info(struct sys_dev *hba)
 		else
 			printf("()\n");
 
+		print_encryption_information(fd, hba->type);
+
 skip:
 		close_fd(&fd);
 	}
@@ -2856,7 +2846,7 @@ static int detail_platform_imsm(int verbose, int enumerate_only, char *controlle
 				hba->path, get_sys_dev_type(hba->type));
 			if (hba->type == SYS_DEV_SATA || hba->type == SYS_DEV_SATA_VMD) {
 				host_base = ahci_get_port_count(hba->path, &port_count);
-				if (ahci_enumerate_ports(hba->path, port_count, host_base, verbose)) {
+				if (ahci_enumerate_ports(hba, port_count, host_base, verbose)) {
 					if (verbose > 0)
 						pr_err("failed to enumerate ports on %s controller at %s.\n",
 							get_sys_dev_type(hba->type), hba->pci_id);
@@ -4174,17 +4164,17 @@ static int imsm_read_serial(int fd, char *devname,
 
 	memset(buf, 0, sizeof(buf));
 
+	if (check_env("IMSM_DEVNAME_AS_SERIAL")) {
+		memset(serial, 0, serial_buf_len);
+		fd2devname(fd, (char *) serial);
+		return 0;
+	}
+
 	rv = nvme_get_serial(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
 
 	if (rv)
 		rv = scsi_get_serial(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
 
-	if (rv && check_env("IMSM_DEVNAME_AS_SERIAL")) {
-		memset(serial, 0, MAX_RAID_SERIAL_LEN);
-		fd2devname(fd, (char *) serial);
-		return 0;
-	}
-
 	if (rv != 0) {
 		if (devname)
 			pr_err("Failed to retrieve serial for %s\n",
@@ -8771,6 +8761,9 @@ static int imsm_set_array_state(struct active_array *a, int consistent)
 		super->updates_pending++;
 	}
 
+	if (a->prev_action == idle)
+		goto skip_mark_checkpoint;
+
 mark_checkpoint:
 	/* skip checkpointing for general migration,
 	 * it is controlled in mdadm
@@ -11259,39 +11252,247 @@ abort:
 	return retval;
 }
 
-static char disk_by_path[] = "/dev/disk/by-path/";
-
-static const char *imsm_get_disk_controller_domain(const char *path)
-{
-	char disk_path[PATH_MAX];
-	char *drv=NULL;
-	struct stat st;
-
-	strncpy(disk_path, disk_by_path, PATH_MAX);
-	strncat(disk_path, path, PATH_MAX - strlen(disk_path) - 1);
-	if (stat(disk_path, &st) == 0) {
-		struct sys_dev* hba;
-		char *path;
-
-		path = devt_to_devpath(st.st_rdev, 1, NULL);
-		if (path == NULL)
-			return "unknown";
-		hba = find_disk_attached_hba(-1, path);
-		if (hba && hba->type == SYS_DEV_SAS)
-			drv = "isci";
-		else if (hba && (hba->type == SYS_DEV_SATA || hba->type == SYS_DEV_SATA_VMD))
-			drv = "ahci";
-		else if (hba && hba->type == SYS_DEV_VMD)
-			drv = "vmd";
-		else if (hba && hba->type == SYS_DEV_NVME)
-			drv = "nvme";
-		else
-			drv = "unknown";
-		dprintf("path: %s hba: %s attached: %s\n",
-			path, (hba) ? hba->path : "NULL", drv);
-		free(path);
+/**
+ * test_and_add_drive_controller_policy_imsm() - add disk controller to policies list.
+ * @type: Policy type to search on list.
+ * @pols: List of currently recorded policies.
+ * @disk_fd: File descriptor of the device to check.
+ * @hba: The hba disk is attached, could be NULL if verification is disabled.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * IMSM cares about drive physical placement. If @hba is not set, it adds unknown policy.
+ * If there is no controller policy on pols we are free to add first one. If there is a policy then,
+ * new must be the same - no controller mixing allowed.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t
+test_and_add_drive_controller_policy_imsm(const char * const type, dev_policy_t **pols, int disk_fd,
+					  struct sys_dev *hba, const int verbose)
+{
+	const char *controller_policy = get_sys_dev_type(SYS_DEV_UNKNOWN);
+	struct dev_policy *pol = pol_find(*pols, (char *)type);
+	char devname[MAX_RAID_SERIAL_LEN];
+
+	if (hba)
+		controller_policy = get_sys_dev_type(hba->type);
+
+	if (!pol) {
+		pol_add(pols, (char *)type, (char *)controller_policy, "imsm");
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+	}
+
+	if (strcmp(pol->value, controller_policy) == 0)
+		return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+	fd2devname(disk_fd, devname);
+	pr_vrb("Intel(R) raid controller \"%s\" found for %s, but \"%s\" was detected earlier\n",
+	       controller_policy, devname, pol->value);
+	pr_vrb("Disks under different controllers cannot be used, aborting\n");
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+}
+
+/**
+ * test_and_add_drive_encryption_policy_imsm() - add disk encryption to policies list.
+ * @type: policy type to search in the list.
+ * @pols: list of currently recorded policies.
+ * @disk_fd: file descriptor of the device to check.
+ * @hba: The hba to which the drive is attached, could be NULL if verification is disabled.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * IMSM cares about drive encryption state. It is not allowed to mix disks with different
+ * encryption state within one md device.
+ * If there is no encryption policy on pols we are free to add first one.
+ * If there is a policy then, new must be the same.
+ */
+static mdadm_status_t
+test_and_add_drive_encryption_policy_imsm(const char * const type, dev_policy_t **pols, int disk_fd,
+					  struct sys_dev *hba, const int verbose)
+{
+	struct dev_policy *expected_policy = pol_find(*pols, (char *)type);
+	struct encryption_information information = {0};
+	char *encryption_state = "Unknown";
+	int status = MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+	bool encryption_checked = true;
+	char devname[PATH_MAX];
+
+	if (!hba)
+		goto check_policy;
+
+	switch (hba->type) {
+	case SYS_DEV_NVME:
+	case SYS_DEV_VMD:
+		status = get_nvme_opal_encryption_information(disk_fd, &information, verbose);
+		break;
+	case SYS_DEV_SATA:
+	case SYS_DEV_SATA_VMD:
+		status = get_ata_encryption_information(disk_fd, &information, verbose);
+		break;
+	default:
+		encryption_checked = false;
+	}
+
+	if (status) {
+		fd2devname(disk_fd, devname);
+		pr_vrb("Failed to read encryption information of device %s\n", devname);
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	if (encryption_checked) {
+		if (information.status == ENC_STATUS_LOCKED) {
+			fd2devname(disk_fd, devname);
+			pr_vrb("Device %s is in Locked state, cannot use. Aborting.\n", devname);
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+		}
+		encryption_state = (char *)get_encryption_status_string(information.status);
 	}
-	return drv;
+
+check_policy:
+	if (expected_policy) {
+		if (strcmp(expected_policy->value, encryption_state) == 0)
+			return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+		fd2devname(disk_fd, devname);
+		pr_vrb("Encryption status \"%s\" detected for disk %s, but \"%s\" status was detected eariler.\n",
+		       encryption_state, devname, expected_policy->value);
+		pr_vrb("Disks with different encryption status cannot be used.\n");
+		return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	}
+
+	pol_add(pols, (char *)type, encryption_state, "imsm");
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+struct imsm_drive_policy {
+	char *type;
+	mdadm_status_t (*test_and_add_drive_policy)(const char * const type,
+						    struct dev_policy **pols, int disk_fd,
+						    struct sys_dev *hba, const int verbose);
+};
+
+struct imsm_drive_policy imsm_policies[] = {
+	{"controller", test_and_add_drive_controller_policy_imsm},
+	{"encryption", test_and_add_drive_encryption_policy_imsm}
+};
+
+mdadm_status_t test_and_add_drive_policies_imsm(struct dev_policy **pols, int disk_fd,
+						const int verbose)
+{
+	struct imsm_drive_policy *imsm_pol;
+	struct sys_dev *hba = NULL;
+	char path[PATH_MAX];
+	mdadm_status_t ret;
+	unsigned int i;
+
+	/* If imsm platform verification is disabled, do not search for hba. */
+	if (check_no_platform() != 1) {
+		if (!diskfd_to_devpath(disk_fd, 1, path)) {
+			pr_vrb("IMSM: Failed to retrieve device path by file descriptor.\n");
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+		}
+
+		hba = find_disk_attached_hba(disk_fd, path);
+		if (!hba) {
+			pr_vrb("IMSM: Failed to find hba for %s\n", path);
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+		}
+	}
+
+	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(imsm_policies); i++) {
+		imsm_pol = &imsm_policies[i];
+
+		ret = imsm_pol->test_and_add_drive_policy(imsm_pol->type, pols, disk_fd, hba,
+							  verbose);
+		if (ret != MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS)
+			/* Inherit error code */
+			return ret;
+	}
+
+	return MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+}
+
+/**
+ * get_spare_criteria_imsm() - set spare criteria.
+ * @st: supertype.
+ * @mddev_path: path to md device devnode, it must be container.
+ * @c: spare_criteria struct to fill, not NULL.
+ *
+ * If superblock is not loaded, use mddev_path to load_container. It must be given in this case.
+ * Filles size and sector size accordingly to superblock.
+ */
+mdadm_status_t get_spare_criteria_imsm(struct supertype *st, char *mddev_path,
+				       struct spare_criteria *c)
+{
+	mdadm_status_t ret = MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+	bool free_superblock = false;
+	unsigned long long size = 0;
+	struct intel_super *super;
+	struct extent *e;
+	struct dl *dl;
+	int i;
+
+	/* If no superblock and no mddev_path, we cannot load superblock. */
+	assert(st->sb || mddev_path);
+
+	if (mddev_path) {
+		int fd = open(mddev_path, O_RDONLY);
+		mdadm_status_t rv;
+
+		if (!is_fd_valid(fd))
+			return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+
+		if (!st->sb) {
+			if (load_container_imsm(st, fd, st->devnm)) {
+				close(fd);
+				return MDADM_STATUS_ERROR;
+			}
+			free_superblock = true;
+		}
+
+		rv = mddev_test_and_add_drive_policies(st, &c->pols, fd, 0);
+		close(fd);
+
+		if (rv != MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS)
+			goto out;
+	}
+
+	super = st->sb;
+
+	/* find first active disk in array */
+	dl = super->disks;
+	while (dl && (is_failed(&dl->disk) || dl->index == -1))
+		dl = dl->next;
+
+	if (!dl)
+		goto out;
+
+	/* find last lba used by subarrays */
+	e = get_extents(super, dl, 0);
+	if (!e)
+		goto out;
+
+	for (i = 0; e[i].size; i++)
+		continue;
+	if (i > 0)
+		size = e[i - 1].start + e[i - 1].size;
+	free(e);
+
+	/* add the amount of space needed for metadata */
+	size += imsm_min_reserved_sectors(super);
+
+	c->min_size = size * 512;
+	c->sector_size = super->sector_size;
+	c->criteria_set = true;
+	ret = MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS;
+
+out:
+	if (free_superblock)
+		free_super_imsm(st);
+
+	if (ret != MDADM_STATUS_SUCCESS)
+		c->criteria_set = false;
+
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static char *imsm_find_array_devnm_by_subdev(int subdev, char *container)
@@ -11422,10 +11623,15 @@ static int imsm_reshape_is_allowed_on_container(struct supertype *st,
  */
 static struct mdinfo *get_spares_for_grow(struct supertype *st)
 {
-	struct spare_criteria sc;
+	struct spare_criteria sc = {0};
+	struct mdinfo *spares;
+
+	get_spare_criteria_imsm(st, NULL, &sc);
+	spares = container_choose_spares(st, &sc, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0);
+
+	dev_policy_free(sc.pols);
 
-	get_spare_criteria_imsm(st, &sc);
-	return container_choose_spares(st, &sc, NULL, NULL, NULL, 0);
+	return spares;
 }
 
 /******************************************************************************
@@ -12987,7 +13193,7 @@ struct superswitch super_imsm = {
 	.update_subarray = update_subarray_imsm,
 	.load_container	= load_container_imsm,
 	.default_geometry = default_geometry_imsm,
-	.get_disk_controller_domain = imsm_get_disk_controller_domain,
+	.test_and_add_drive_policies = test_and_add_drive_policies_imsm,
 	.reshape_super  = imsm_reshape_super,
 	.manage_reshape = imsm_manage_reshape,
 	.recover_backup = recover_backup_imsm,
@@ -13020,6 +13226,7 @@ struct superswitch super_imsm = {
 	.validate_ppl	= validate_ppl_imsm,
 
 	.external	= 1,
+	.swapuuid	= 0,
 	.name = "imsm",
 
 /* for mdmon */
diff --git a/super0.c b/super0.c
index a7c5f81..9b8a1bd 100644
--- a/super0.c
+++ b/super0.c
@@ -1369,5 +1369,7 @@ struct superswitch super0 = {
 	.locate_bitmap = locate_bitmap0,
 	.write_bitmap = write_bitmap0,
 	.free_super = free_super0,
+
+	.swapuuid = 0,
 	.name = "0.90",
 };
diff --git a/super1.c b/super1.c
index 871d19f..81d29a6 100644
--- a/super1.c
+++ b/super1.c
@@ -575,17 +575,6 @@ static void examine_super1(struct supertype *st, char *homehost)
 			inconsistent = 1;
 		}
 	}
-#if 0
-	/* This is confusing too */
-	faulty = 0;
-	for (i = 0; i < __le32_to_cpu(sb->max_dev); i++) {
-		int role = __le16_to_cpu(sb->dev_roles[i]);
-		if (role == MD_DISK_ROLE_FAULTY)
-			faulty++;
-	}
-	if (faulty)
-		printf(" %d failed", faulty);
-#endif
 	printf(" ('A' == active, '.' == missing, 'R' == replacing)");
 	printf("\n");
 	for (d = 0; d < __le32_to_cpu(sb->max_dev); d++) {
@@ -1752,7 +1741,10 @@ static int add_to_super1(struct supertype *st, mdu_disk_info_t *dk,
 	di->devname = devname;
 	di->disk = *dk;
 	di->data_offset = data_offset;
-	get_dev_size(fd, NULL, &di->dev_size);
+
+	if (is_fd_valid(fd))
+		get_dev_size(fd, NULL, &di->dev_size);
+
 	di->next = NULL;
 	*dip = di;
 
diff --git a/sysfs.c b/sysfs.c
index f95ef70..20fe1e9 100644
--- a/sysfs.c
+++ b/sysfs.c
@@ -74,6 +74,29 @@ void sysfs_free(struct mdinfo *sra)
 	}
 }
 
+/**
+ * sysfs_get_container_devnm() - extract container device name.
+ * @mdi: md_info describes member array, with GET_VERSION option.
+ * @buf: buf to fill, must be MD_NAME_MAX.
+ *
+ * External array version is in format {/,-}<container_devnm>/<array_index>
+ * Extract container_devnm from it and safe it in @buf.
+ */
+void sysfs_get_container_devnm(struct mdinfo *mdi, char *buf)
+{
+	char *p;
+
+	assert(is_subarray(mdi->text_version));
+
+	/* Skip first special sign */
+	snprintf(buf, MD_NAME_MAX, "%s", mdi->text_version + 1);
+
+	/* Remove array index */
+	p = strchr(buf, '/');
+	if (p)
+		*p = 0;
+}
+
 int sysfs_open(char *devnm, char *devname, char *attr)
 {
 	char fname[MAX_SYSFS_PATH_LEN];
@@ -655,7 +678,7 @@ int sysfs_set_safemode(struct mdinfo *sra, unsigned long ms)
 	return sysfs_set_str(sra, NULL, "safe_mode_delay", delay);
 }
 
-int sysfs_set_array(struct mdinfo *info, int vers)
+int sysfs_set_array(struct mdinfo *info)
 {
 	int rv = 0;
 	char ver[100];
@@ -679,9 +702,7 @@ int sysfs_set_array(struct mdinfo *info, int vers)
 			if (strlen(buf) >= 9 && buf[9] == '-')
 				ver[9] = '-';
 
-		if ((vers % 100) < 2 ||
-		    sysfs_set_str(info, NULL, "metadata_version",
-				  ver) < 0) {
+		if (sysfs_set_str(info, NULL, "metadata_version", ver) < 0) {
 			pr_err("This kernel does not support external metadata.\n");
 			return 1;
 		}
@@ -1100,3 +1121,32 @@ void sysfsline(char *line)
 	sr->next = sysfs_rules;
 	sysfs_rules = sr;
 }
+
+/**
+ * sysfs_is_libata_allow_tpm_enabled() - check if libata allow_tmp is enabled.
+ * @verbose: verbose flag.
+ *
+ * Check if libata allow_tmp flag is set, this is required for SATA Opal Security commands to work.
+ *
+ * Return: true if allow_tpm enable, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool sysfs_is_libata_allow_tpm_enabled(const int verbose)
+{
+	const char *path = "/sys/module/libata/parameters/allow_tpm";
+	const char *expected_value = "1";
+	int fd = open(path, O_RDONLY);
+	char buf[3];
+
+	if (!is_fd_valid(fd)) {
+		pr_vrb("Failed open file descriptor to %s. Cannot check libata allow_tpm param.\n",
+		       path);
+		return false;
+	}
+
+	sysfs_fd_get_str(fd, buf, sizeof(buf));
+	close(fd);
+
+	if (strncmp(buf, expected_value, 1) == 0)
+		return true;
+	return false;
+}
diff --git a/test b/test
index 49a36c3..338c2db 100755
--- a/test
+++ b/test
@@ -1,11 +1,12 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 #
 # run test suite for mdadm
-mdadm=$PWD/mdadm
+mdadm=`which mdadm`
 targetdir="/var/tmp"
 logdir="$targetdir"
 config=/tmp/mdadm.conf
 testdir=$PWD/tests
+system_speed_limit=`cat /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max`
 devlist=
 
 savelogs=0
@@ -20,9 +21,6 @@ DEVTYPE=loop
 INTEGRITY=yes
 LVM_VOLGROUP=mdtest
 
-# make sure to test local mdmon, not system one
-export MDADM_NO_SYSTEMCTL=1
-
 # assume md0, md1, md2 exist in /dev
 md0=/dev/md0
 md1=/dev/md1
@@ -41,7 +39,10 @@ ctrl_c() {
 	ctrl_c_error=1
 }
 
-# mdadm always adds --quiet, and we want to see any unexpected messages
+restore_system_speed_limit() {
+	echo $system_speed_limit > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
+}
+
 mdadm() {
 	rm -f $targetdir/stderr
 	case $* in
@@ -63,10 +64,10 @@ mdadm() {
 					$mdadm --zero $args > /dev/null
 			}
 		done
-		$mdadm 2> $targetdir/stderr --quiet "$@" --auto=yes
+		$mdadm 2> $targetdir/stderr "$@" --auto=yes
 		;;
 	* )
-		$mdadm 2> $targetdir/stderr --quiet "$@"
+		$mdadm 2> $targetdir/stderr "$@"
 		;;
 	esac
 	rv=$?
@@ -99,8 +100,6 @@ do_test() {
 		fi
 
 		rm -f $targetdir/stderr
-		# this might have been reset: restore the default.
-		echo 2000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
 		do_clean
 		# source script in a subshell, so it has access to our
 		# namespace, but cannot change it.
@@ -122,6 +121,7 @@ do_test() {
 				echo "  (KNOWN BROKEN TEST: $_broken_msg)"
 			fi
 		fi
+		restore_system_speed_limit
 		[ "$savelogs" == "1" ] &&
 			mv -f $targetdir/log $logdir/$_basename.log
 		[ "$ctrl_c_error" == "1" ] && exit 1
@@ -299,7 +299,15 @@ parse_args() {
 	done
 }
 
+print_warning() {
+	cat <<-EOF
+	Warning! Tests are performed on system level mdadm!
+	If you want to test local build, you need to install it first!
+	EOF
+}
+
 main() {
+	print_warning
 	do_setup
 
 	echo "Testing on linux-$(uname -r) kernel"
@@ -329,6 +337,7 @@ main() {
 			break
 		fi
 	done
+
 	exit 0
 }
 
diff --git a/tests/func.sh b/tests/func.sh
index 1c1a28a..b474442 100644
--- a/tests/func.sh
+++ b/tests/func.sh
@@ -213,7 +213,6 @@ do_setup() {
 	path1=$dev7
 	ulimit -c unlimited
 	[ -f /proc/mdstat ] || modprobe md_mod
-	echo 2000 > /proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max
 	echo 0 > /sys/module/md_mod/parameters/start_ro
 }
 
diff --git a/udev.c b/udev.c
index bc4722b..066e6ab 100644
--- a/udev.c
+++ b/udev.c
@@ -26,7 +26,10 @@
 #include	<signal.h>
 #include	<limits.h>
 #include	<syslog.h>
+
+#ifndef NO_LIBUDEV
 #include	<libudev.h>
+#endif
 
 static char *unblock_path;
 
diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index b145447..9e83704 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@
 #include	<ctype.h>
 #include	<dirent.h>
 #include	<dlfcn.h>
-
+#include	<limits.h>
 
 /*
  * following taken from linux/blkpg.h because they aren't
@@ -589,19 +589,21 @@ char *__fname_from_uuid(int id[4], int swap, char *buf, char sep)
 
 }
 
-char *fname_from_uuid(struct supertype *st, struct mdinfo *info,
-		      char *buf, char sep)
+/**
+ * fname_from_uuid() - generate uuid string. Should not be used with super1.
+ * @info: info with uuid
+ * @buf: buf to fill.
+ *
+ * This routine should not be used with super1. See detail_fname_from_uuid() for details. It does
+ * not use superswitch swapuuid as it should be 0 but it has to do UUID conversion if host is big
+ * endian- left for backward compatibility.
+ */
+char *fname_from_uuid(struct mdinfo *info, char *buf)
 {
-	// dirty hack to work around an issue with super1 superblocks...
-	// super1 superblocks need swapuuid set in order for assembly to
-	// work, but can't have it set if we want this printout to match
-	// all the other uuid printouts in super1.c, so we force swapuuid
-	// to 1 to make our printout match the rest of super1
 #if __BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN
-	return __fname_from_uuid(info->uuid, 1, buf, sep);
+	return __fname_from_uuid(info->uuid, true, buf, ':');
 #else
-	return __fname_from_uuid(info->uuid, (st->ss == &super1) ? 1 :
-				 st->ss->swapuuid, buf, sep);
+	return __fname_from_uuid(info->uuid, false, buf, ':');
 #endif
 }
 
@@ -1266,40 +1268,6 @@ struct supertype *super_by_fd(int fd, char **subarrayp)
 	return st;
 }
 
-int dev_size_from_id(dev_t id, unsigned long long *size)
-{
-	char buf[20];
-	int fd;
-
-	sprintf(buf, "%d:%d", major(id), minor(id));
-	fd = dev_open(buf, O_RDONLY);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		return 0;
-	if (get_dev_size(fd, NULL, size)) {
-		close(fd);
-		return 1;
-	}
-	close(fd);
-	return 0;
-}
-
-int dev_sector_size_from_id(dev_t id, unsigned int *size)
-{
-	char buf[20];
-	int fd;
-
-	sprintf(buf, "%d:%d", major(id), minor(id));
-	fd = dev_open(buf, O_RDONLY);
-	if (fd < 0)
-		return 0;
-	if (get_dev_sector_size(fd, NULL, size)) {
-		close(fd);
-		return 1;
-	}
-	close(fd);
-	return 0;
-}
-
 struct supertype *dup_super(struct supertype *orig)
 {
 	struct supertype *st;
@@ -1899,8 +1867,7 @@ int set_array_info(int mdfd, struct supertype *st, struct mdinfo *info)
 	int rv;
 
 	if (st->ss->external)
-		return sysfs_set_array(info, 9003);
-		
+		return sysfs_set_array(info);
 	memset(&inf, 0, sizeof(inf));
 	inf.major_version = info->array.major_version;
 	inf.minor_version = info->array.minor_version;
@@ -2088,6 +2055,65 @@ void append_metadata_update(struct supertype *st, void *buf, int len)
 unsigned int __invalid_size_argument_for_IOC = 0;
 #endif
 
+/**
+ * disk_fd_matches_criteria() - check if device matches spare criteria.
+ * @st: supertype, not NULL.
+ * @disk_fd: file descriptor of the disk.
+ * @sc: criteria to test.
+ *
+ * Return: true if disk matches criteria, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool disk_fd_matches_criteria(struct supertype *st, int disk_fd, struct spare_criteria *sc)
+{
+	unsigned int dev_sector_size = 0;
+	unsigned long long dev_size = 0;
+
+	if (!sc->criteria_set)
+		return true;
+
+	if (!get_dev_size(disk_fd, NULL, &dev_size) || dev_size < sc->min_size)
+		return false;
+
+	if (!get_dev_sector_size(disk_fd, NULL, &dev_sector_size) ||
+	    sc->sector_size != dev_sector_size)
+		return false;
+
+	if (drive_test_and_add_policies(st, &sc->pols, disk_fd, 0))
+		return false;
+
+	return true;
+}
+
+/**
+ * devid_matches_criteria() - check if device referenced by devid matches spare criteria.
+ * @st: supertype, not NULL.
+ * @devid: devid of the device to check.
+ * @sc: criteria to test.
+ *
+ * Return: true if disk matches criteria, false otherwise.
+ */
+bool devid_matches_criteria(struct supertype *st, dev_t devid, struct spare_criteria *sc)
+{
+	char buf[NAME_MAX];
+	bool ret;
+	int fd;
+
+	if (!sc->criteria_set)
+		return true;
+
+	snprintf(buf, NAME_MAX, "%d:%d", major(devid), minor(devid));
+
+	fd = dev_open(buf, O_RDONLY);
+	if (!is_fd_valid(fd))
+		return false;
+
+	/* Error code inherited */
+	ret = disk_fd_matches_criteria(st, fd, sc);
+
+	close(fd);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /* Pick all spares matching given criteria from a container
  * if min_size == 0 do not check size
  * if domlist == NULL do not check domains
@@ -2111,28 +2137,13 @@ struct mdinfo *container_choose_spares(struct supertype *st,
 	dp = &disks->devs;
 	disks->array.spare_disks = 0;
 	while (*dp) {
-		int found = 0;
+		bool found = false;
+
 		d = *dp;
 		if (d->disk.state == 0) {
-			/* check if size is acceptable */
-			unsigned long long dev_size;
-			unsigned int dev_sector_size;
-			int size_valid = 0;
-			int sector_size_valid = 0;
-
 			dev_t dev = makedev(d->disk.major,d->disk.minor);
 
-			if (!criteria->min_size ||
-			   (dev_size_from_id(dev,  &dev_size) &&
-			    dev_size >= criteria->min_size))
-				size_valid = 1;
-
-			if (!criteria->sector_size ||
-			    (dev_sector_size_from_id(dev, &dev_sector_size) &&
-			     criteria->sector_size == dev_sector_size))
-				sector_size_valid = 1;
-
-			found = size_valid && sector_size_valid;
+			found = devid_matches_criteria(st, dev, criteria);
 
 			/* check if domain matches */
 			if (found && domlist) {
@@ -2141,7 +2152,8 @@ struct mdinfo *container_choose_spares(struct supertype *st,
 					pol_add(&pol, pol_domain,
 						spare_group, NULL);
 				if (domain_test(domlist, pol, metadata) != 1)
-					found = 0;
+					found = false;
+
 				dev_policy_free(pol);
 			}
 		}