diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index a6b6471da2bc..d97a62534798 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -7165,11 +7165,14 @@ void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
 			atomic_add(sectors, &mddev->recovery_active);
 		}
 
+		if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery))
+			break;
+
 		j += sectors;
 		if (j>1) mddev->curr_resync = j;
 		mddev->curr_mark_cnt = io_sectors;
 		if (last_check == 0)
-			/* this is the earliers that rebuilt will be
+			/* this is the earliest that rebuild will be
 			 * visible in /proc/mdstat
 			 */
 			md_new_event(mddev);
@@ -7178,10 +7181,6 @@ void md_do_sync(mddev_t *mddev)
 			continue;
 
 		last_check = io_sectors;
-
-		if (test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery))
-			break;
-
 	repeat:
 		if (time_after_eq(jiffies, mark[last_mark] + SYNC_MARK_STEP )) {
 			/* step marks */
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 5f0355832b46..de6089926273 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector_nr,
 	max_sync = RESYNC_PAGES << (PAGE_SHIFT-9);
 	if (!test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_SYNC, &mddev->recovery)) {
 		/* recovery... the complicated one */
-		int j, k;
+		int j;
 		r10_bio = NULL;
 
 		for (i=0 ; i<conf->raid_disks; i++) {
@@ -2013,6 +2013,7 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector_nr,
 			r10bio_t *rb2;
 			sector_t sect;
 			int must_sync;
+			int any_working;
 
 			if (conf->mirrors[i].rdev == NULL ||
 			    test_bit(In_sync, &conf->mirrors[i].rdev->flags)) 
@@ -2064,7 +2065,9 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector_nr,
 			must_sync = bitmap_start_sync(mddev->bitmap, sect,
 						      &sync_blocks, still_degraded);
 
+			any_working = 0;
 			for (j=0; j<conf->copies;j++) {
+				int k;
 				int d = r10_bio->devs[j].devnum;
 				mdk_rdev_t *rdev;
 				sector_t sector, first_bad;
@@ -2073,6 +2076,7 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector_nr,
 				    !test_bit(In_sync, &conf->mirrors[d].rdev->flags))
 					continue;
 				/* This is where we read from */
+				any_working = 1;
 				rdev = conf->mirrors[d].rdev;
 				sector = r10_bio->devs[j].addr;
 
@@ -2121,16 +2125,35 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector_nr,
 				break;
 			}
 			if (j == conf->copies) {
-				/* Cannot recover, so abort the recovery */
+				/* Cannot recover, so abort the recovery or
+				 * record a bad block */
 				put_buf(r10_bio);
 				if (rb2)
 					atomic_dec(&rb2->remaining);
 				r10_bio = rb2;
-				if (!test_and_set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR,
-						      &mddev->recovery))
-					printk(KERN_INFO "md/raid10:%s: insufficient "
-					       "working devices for recovery.\n",
-					       mdname(mddev));
+				if (any_working) {
+					/* problem is that there are bad blocks
+					 * on other device(s)
+					 */
+					int k;
+					for (k = 0; k < conf->copies; k++)
+						if (r10_bio->devs[k].devnum == i)
+							break;
+					if (!rdev_set_badblocks(
+						    conf->mirrors[i].rdev,
+						    r10_bio->devs[k].addr,
+						    max_sync, 0))
+						any_working = 0;
+				}
+				if (!any_working)  {
+					if (!test_and_set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR,
+							      &mddev->recovery))
+						printk(KERN_INFO "md/raid10:%s: insufficient "
+						       "working devices for recovery.\n",
+						       mdname(mddev));
+					conf->mirrors[i].recovery_disabled
+						= mddev->recovery_disabled;
+				}
 				break;
 			}
 		}
@@ -2290,7 +2313,8 @@ static sector_t sync_request(mddev_t *mddev, sector_t sector_nr,
 	return sectors_skipped + nr_sectors;
  giveup:
 	/* There is nowhere to write, so all non-sync
-	 * drives must be failed, so try the next chunk...
+	 * drives must be failed or in resync, all drives
+	 * have a bad block, so try the next chunk...
 	 */
 	if (sector_nr + max_sync < max_sector)
 		max_sector = sector_nr + max_sync;