diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index b26927ce889cead2717db3f4d3896bbd9bacc4e2..dedba16d42f723cb75f87396659e31899d010fc8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -454,8 +454,11 @@ void bitmap_update_sb(struct bitmap *bitmap)
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
 	sb = (bitmap_super_t *)kmap_atomic(bitmap->sb_page, KM_USER0);
 	sb->events = cpu_to_le64(bitmap->mddev->events);
-	if (!bitmap->mddev->degraded)
-		sb->events_cleared = cpu_to_le64(bitmap->mddev->events);
+	if (bitmap->mddev->events < bitmap->events_cleared) {
+		/* rocking back to read-only */
+		bitmap->events_cleared = bitmap->mddev->events;
+		sb->events_cleared = cpu_to_le64(bitmap->events_cleared);
+	}
 	kunmap_atomic(sb, KM_USER0);
 	write_page(bitmap, bitmap->sb_page, 1);
 }
@@ -1085,9 +1088,19 @@ void bitmap_daemon_work(struct bitmap *bitmap)
 			} else
 				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bitmap->lock, flags);
 			lastpage = page;
-/*
-			printk("bitmap clean at page %lu\n", j);
-*/
+
+			/* We are possibly going to clear some bits, so make
+			 * sure that events_cleared is up-to-date.
+			 */
+			if (bitmap->need_sync) {
+				bitmap_super_t *sb;
+				bitmap->need_sync = 0;
+				sb = kmap_atomic(bitmap->sb_page, KM_USER0);
+				sb->events_cleared =
+					cpu_to_le64(bitmap->events_cleared);
+				kunmap_atomic(sb, KM_USER0);
+				write_page(bitmap, bitmap->sb_page, 1);
+			}
 			spin_lock_irqsave(&bitmap->lock, flags);
 			clear_page_attr(bitmap, page, BITMAP_PAGE_CLEAN);
 		}
@@ -1257,6 +1270,12 @@ void bitmap_endwrite(struct bitmap *bitmap, sector_t offset, unsigned long secto
 			return;
 		}
 
+		if (success &&
+		    bitmap->events_cleared < bitmap->mddev->events) {
+			bitmap->events_cleared = bitmap->mddev->events;
+			bitmap->need_sync = 1;
+		}
+
 		if (!success && ! (*bmc & NEEDED_MASK))
 			*bmc |= NEEDED_MASK;
 
diff --git a/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h b/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
index 78bfdea24a8ecd3f2465a031a7956fd8ba43f63a..e98900671ca91d7a4f76ae91ac7393f6613bd5ee 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/bitmap.h
@@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ struct bitmap {
 	unsigned long syncchunk;
 
 	__u64	events_cleared;
+	int need_sync;
 
 	/* bitmap spinlock */
 	spinlock_t lock;