diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 6e853c61d87eee47d66ddb7a510270f1c4cb2cbc..7d6f7f18a92052e3258ffeae719c377b2df4fb78 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -3170,6 +3170,7 @@ level_store(mddev_t *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
 	mddev->layout = mddev->new_layout;
 	mddev->chunk_sectors = mddev->new_chunk_sectors;
 	mddev->delta_disks = 0;
+	mddev->degraded = 0;
 	if (mddev->pers->sync_request == NULL) {
 		/* this is now an array without redundancy, so
 		 * it must always be in_sync