if (!strcasecmp(argv[0], "idle") || !strcasecmp(argv[0], "frozen")) {
                if (mddev->sync_thread) {
                        set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
+                       md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);
                        md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
                }
        } else if (decipher_sync_action(mddev, mddev->recovery) != st_idle)
 
                        if (work_pending(&mddev->del_work))
                                flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
                        if (mddev->sync_thread) {
+                               sector_t save_rp = mddev->reshape_position;
+
+                               mddev_unlock(mddev);
+                               set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
+                               md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);
+                               mddev_lock_nointr(mddev);
+                               /*
+                                * set RECOVERY_INTR again and restore reshape
+                                * position in case others changed them after
+                                * got lock, eg, reshape_position_store and
+                                * md_check_recovery.
+                                */
+                               mddev->reshape_position = save_rp;
                                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
                                md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
                        }
                flush_workqueue(md_misc_wq);
        if (mddev->sync_thread) {
                set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
+               md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);
                md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
        }
 
                         * ->spare_active and clear saved_raid_disk
                         */
                        set_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery);
+                       md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);
                        md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
                        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_RECOVER, &mddev->recovery);
                        clear_bit(MD_RECOVERY_NEEDED, &mddev->recovery);
                        goto unlock;
                }
                if (mddev->sync_thread) {
+                       md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);
                        md_reap_sync_thread(mddev);
                        goto unlock;
                }
        sector_t old_dev_sectors = mddev->dev_sectors;
        bool is_reshaped = false;
 
-       /* resync has finished, collect result */
-       md_unregister_thread(&mddev->sync_thread);
+       /* sync_thread should be unregistered, collect result */
        if (!test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_INTR, &mddev->recovery) &&
            !test_bit(MD_RECOVERY_REQUESTED, &mddev->recovery) &&
            mddev->degraded != mddev->raid_disks) {