diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 3cbf0ac2aaad..8db311d7cddc 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1055,6 +1055,9 @@ static int raid1_add_disk(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_rdev_t *rdev)
 	if (mddev->recovery_disabled == conf->recovery_disabled)
 		return -EBUSY;
 
+	if (rdev->badblocks.count)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (rdev->raid_disk >= 0)
 		first = last = rdev->raid_disk;
 
@@ -1994,6 +1997,10 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
 			blk_queue_segment_boundary(mddev->queue,
 						   PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 		}
+		if (rdev->badblocks.count) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "md/raid1: Cannot handle bad blocks yet\n");
+			return -EINVAL;
+		}
 	}
 
 	mddev->degraded = 0;
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index 5def27c28be7..8aadd2f52dc8 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1101,6 +1101,9 @@ static int raid10_add_disk(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_rdev_t *rdev)
 	int first = 0;
 	int last = conf->raid_disks - 1;
 
+	if (rdev->badblocks.count)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (mddev->recovery_cp < MaxSector)
 		/* only hot-add to in-sync arrays, as recovery is
 		 * very different from resync
@@ -2263,6 +2266,11 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
 				 (conf->raid_disks / conf->near_copies));
 
 	list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set) {
+
+		if (rdev->badblocks.count) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "md/raid10: cannot handle bad blocks yet\n");
+			goto out_free_conf;
+		}
 		disk_idx = rdev->raid_disk;
 		if (disk_idx >= conf->raid_disks
 		    || disk_idx < 0)
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
index b874f42694e2..719445004dd9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5.c
@@ -4667,6 +4667,10 @@ static int run(mddev_t *mddev)
 	 * 0 for a fully functional array, 1 or 2 for a degraded array.
 	 */
 	list_for_each_entry(rdev, &mddev->disks, same_set) {
+		if (rdev->badblocks.count) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR "md/raid5: cannot handle bad blocks yet\n");
+			goto abort;
+		}
 		if (rdev->raid_disk < 0)
 			continue;
 		if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)) {
@@ -4975,6 +4979,9 @@ static int raid5_add_disk(mddev_t *mddev, mdk_rdev_t *rdev)
 	int first = 0;
 	int last = conf->raid_disks - 1;
 
+	if (rdev->badblocks.count)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (has_failed(conf))
 		/* no point adding a device */
 		return -EINVAL;