diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 94f5b55069e09610f21ea640f5dff3efd7e580ca..967a4ed73929ff44a38d9475c5e362fc2914c758 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);