diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index dd91327106f1..876da2ba0927 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 3eda22d19b76b15ef3420b251bd47a0ba0127589
+refs/heads/master: 1031be7a5fafd3a858dfaabb74d98f9ca20744a8
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/md/md.c b/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
index d1cb45f6d6a9..ec3d8e8a0bd3 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1633,7 +1633,8 @@ static void md_update_sb(mddev_t * mddev, int force_change)
 	 * and 'events' is odd, we can roll back to the previous clean state */
 	if (nospares
 	    && (mddev->in_sync && mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector)
-	    && (mddev->events & 1))
+	    && (mddev->events & 1)
+	    && mddev->events != 1)
 		mddev->events--;
 	else {
 		/* otherwise we have to go forward and ... */