diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index d1cb45f..ec3d8e8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1633,7 +1633,8 @@
 	 * 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 ... */