diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index c208c01f63a5a297334f5a21ca1f83816e665fa5..bac480d75d1d9c3a3f367e3015b18a731ed26705 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -2853,7 +2853,8 @@ state_store(struct md_rdev *rdev, const char *buf, size_t len)
 			err = 0;
 		}
 	} else if (cmd_match(buf, "re-add")) {
-		if (test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags) && (rdev->raid_disk == -1)) {
+		if (test_bit(Faulty, &rdev->flags) && (rdev->raid_disk == -1) &&
+			rdev->saved_raid_disk >= 0) {
 			/* clear_bit is performed _after_ all the devices
 			 * have their local Faulty bit cleared. If any writes
 			 * happen in the meantime in the local node, they
@@ -8641,6 +8642,7 @@ static int remove_and_add_spares(struct mddev *mddev,
 			if (mddev->pers->hot_remove_disk(
 				    mddev, rdev) == 0) {
 				sysfs_unlink_rdev(mddev, rdev);
+				rdev->saved_raid_disk = rdev->raid_disk;
 				rdev->raid_disk = -1;
 				removed++;
 			}