diff --git a/drivers/md/bitmap.c b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
index 2bc56e2a3526..135a0907e9de 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bitmap.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bitmap.c
@@ -177,11 +177,16 @@ static struct md_rdev *next_active_rdev(struct md_rdev *rdev, struct mddev *mdde
 	 * nr_pending is 0 and In_sync is clear, the entries we return will
 	 * still be in the same position on the list when we re-enter
 	 * list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu.
+	 *
+	 * Note that if entered with 'rdev == NULL' to start at the
+	 * beginning, we temporarily assign 'rdev' to an address which
+	 * isn't really an rdev, but which can be used by
+	 * list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() to find the first entry.
 	 */
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	if (rdev == NULL)
 		/* start at the beginning */
-		rdev = list_entry_rcu(&mddev->disks, struct md_rdev, same_set);
+		rdev = list_entry(&mddev->disks, struct md_rdev, same_set);
 	else {
 		/* release the previous rdev and start from there. */
 		rdev_dec_pending(rdev, mddev);
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid0.c b/drivers/md/raid0.c
index 6a68ef5246d4..efb654eb5399 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid0.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid0.c
@@ -524,6 +524,9 @@ static void raid0_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
 			 ? (sector & (chunk_sects-1))
 			 : sector_div(sector, chunk_sects));
 
+		/* Restore due to sector_div */
+		sector = bio->bi_iter.bi_sector;
+
 		if (sectors < bio_sectors(bio)) {
 			split = bio_split(bio, sectors, GFP_NOIO, fs_bio_set);
 			bio_chain(split, bio);
@@ -531,7 +534,6 @@ static void raid0_make_request(struct mddev *mddev, struct bio *bio)
 			split = bio;
 		}
 
-		sector = bio->bi_iter.bi_sector;
 		zone = find_zone(mddev->private, &sector);
 		tmp_dev = map_sector(mddev, zone, sector, &sector);
 		split->bi_bdev = tmp_dev->bdev;
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index 1ba97fdc6df1..b9f2b9cc6060 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -1822,7 +1822,7 @@ again:
 	} else
 		init_async_submit(&submit, 0, tx, NULL, NULL,
 				  to_addr_conv(sh, percpu, j));
-	async_gen_syndrome(blocks, 0, count+2, STRIPE_SIZE,  &submit);
+	tx = async_gen_syndrome(blocks, 0, count+2, STRIPE_SIZE,  &submit);
 	if (!last_stripe) {
 		j++;
 		sh = list_first_entry(&sh->batch_list, struct stripe_head,