diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 0c2a4e8b873c..e25f00f0138a 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5759,7 +5759,7 @@ static int get_bitmap_file(struct mddev *mddev, void __user * arg)
 	char *ptr;
 	int err;
 
-	file = kmalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO);
+	file = kzalloc(sizeof(*file), GFP_NOIO);
 	if (!file)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 94f5b55069e0..967a4ed73929 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1476,6 +1476,7 @@ static void error(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 {
 	char b[BDEVNAME_SIZE];
 	struct r1conf *conf = mddev->private;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	/*
 	 * If it is not operational, then we have already marked it as dead
@@ -1495,14 +1496,13 @@ static void error(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 		return;
 	}
 	set_bit(Blocked, &rdev->flags);
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 	if (test_and_clear_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) {
-		unsigned long flags;
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 		mddev->degraded++;
 		set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 	} else
 		set_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags);
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 	/*
 	 * if recovery is running, make sure it aborts.
 	 */
@@ -1568,7 +1568,10 @@ static int raid1_spare_active(struct mddev *mddev)
 	 * Find all failed disks within the RAID1 configuration
 	 * and mark them readable.
 	 * Called under mddev lock, so rcu protection not needed.
+	 * device_lock used to avoid races with raid1_end_read_request
+	 * which expects 'In_sync' flags and ->degraded to be consistent.
 	 */
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 	for (i = 0; i < conf->raid_disks; i++) {
 		struct md_rdev *rdev = conf->mirrors[i].rdev;
 		struct md_rdev *repl = conf->mirrors[conf->raid_disks + i].rdev;
@@ -1599,7 +1602,6 @@ static int raid1_spare_active(struct mddev *mddev)
 			sysfs_notify_dirent_safe(rdev->sysfs_state);
 		}
 	}
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 	mddev->degraded -= count;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&conf->device_lock, flags);
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 643d217bfa13..f757023fc458 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -2256,7 +2256,7 @@ static int resize_stripes(struct r5conf *conf, int newsize)
 static int drop_one_stripe(struct r5conf *conf)
 {
 	struct stripe_head *sh;
-	int hash = (conf->max_nr_stripes - 1) % NR_STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS;
+	int hash = (conf->max_nr_stripes - 1) & STRIPE_HASH_LOCKS_MASK;
 
 	spin_lock_irq(conf->hash_locks + hash);
 	sh = get_free_stripe(conf, hash);
@@ -6388,7 +6388,8 @@ static unsigned long raid5_cache_scan(struct shrinker *shrink,
 
 	if (mutex_trylock(&conf->cache_size_mutex)) {
 		ret= 0;
-		while (ret < sc->nr_to_scan) {
+		while (ret < sc->nr_to_scan &&
+		       conf->max_nr_stripes > conf->min_nr_stripes) {
 			if (drop_one_stripe(conf) == 0) {
 				ret = SHRINK_STOP;
 				break;