diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 0d1d822..29a4bbf 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -1597,6 +1597,11 @@
 			mddev->new_chunk_sectors = mddev->chunk_sectors;
 		}
 
+		if (le32_to_cpu(sb->feature_map) & MD_FEATURE_JOURNAL) {
+			set_bit(MD_HAS_JOURNAL, &mddev->flags);
+			if (mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector)
+				set_bit(MD_JOURNAL_CLEAN, &mddev->flags);
+		}
 	} else if (mddev->pers == NULL) {
 		/* Insist of good event counter while assembling, except for
 		 * spares (which don't need an event count) */
@@ -1643,8 +1648,6 @@
 			}
 			set_bit(Journal, &rdev->flags);
 			rdev->journal_tail = le64_to_cpu(sb->journal_tail);
-			if (mddev->recovery_cp == MaxSector)
-				set_bit(MD_JOURNAL_CLEAN, &mddev->flags);
 			rdev->raid_disk = 0;
 			break;
 		default:
@@ -1664,8 +1667,6 @@
 			set_bit(WriteMostly, &rdev->flags);
 		if (le32_to_cpu(sb->feature_map) & MD_FEATURE_REPLACEMENT)
 			set_bit(Replacement, &rdev->flags);
-		if (le32_to_cpu(sb->feature_map) & MD_FEATURE_JOURNAL)
-			set_bit(MD_HAS_JOURNAL, &mddev->flags);
 	} else /* MULTIPATH are always insync */
 		set_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags);
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
index 6d2b478..7ac035a7 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid5-cache.c
@@ -1235,6 +1235,7 @@
 		goto error;
 
 	rcu_assign_pointer(conf->log, log);
+	set_bit(MD_HAS_JOURNAL, &conf->mddev->flags);
 	return 0;
 
 error: