diff --git a/drivers/md/md.c b/drivers/md/md.c
index 3f1252440ad0..67b90d547f8b 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.c
+++ b/drivers/md/md.c
@@ -5178,6 +5178,34 @@ static struct md_sysfs_entry md_consistency_policy =
 __ATTR(consistency_policy, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, consistency_policy_show,
        consistency_policy_store);
 
+static ssize_t fail_last_dev_show(struct mddev *mddev, char *page)
+{
+	return sprintf(page, "%d\n", mddev->fail_last_dev);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Setting fail_last_dev to true to allow last device to be forcibly removed
+ * from RAID1/RAID10.
+ */
+static ssize_t
+fail_last_dev_store(struct mddev *mddev, const char *buf, size_t len)
+{
+	int ret;
+	bool value;
+
+	ret = kstrtobool(buf, &value);
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
+	if (value != mddev->fail_last_dev)
+		mddev->fail_last_dev = value;
+
+	return len;
+}
+static struct md_sysfs_entry md_fail_last_dev =
+__ATTR(fail_last_dev, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR, fail_last_dev_show,
+       fail_last_dev_store);
+
 static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
 	&md_level.attr,
 	&md_layout.attr,
@@ -5194,6 +5222,7 @@ static struct attribute *md_default_attrs[] = {
 	&md_array_size.attr,
 	&max_corr_read_errors.attr,
 	&md_consistency_policy.attr,
+	&md_fail_last_dev.attr,
 	NULL,
 };
 
diff --git a/drivers/md/md.h b/drivers/md/md.h
index 10f98200e2f8..b742659150a2 100644
--- a/drivers/md/md.h
+++ b/drivers/md/md.h
@@ -487,6 +487,7 @@ struct mddev {
 	unsigned int			good_device_nr;	/* good device num within cluster raid */
 
 	bool	has_superblocks:1;
+	bool	fail_last_dev:1;
 };
 
 enum recovery_flags {
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid1.c b/drivers/md/raid1.c
index 7ffbd8112400..cd80f281b95d 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid1.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid1.c
@@ -1617,12 +1617,12 @@ static void raid1_error(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 
 	/*
 	 * If it is not operational, then we have already marked it as dead
-	 * else if it is the last working disks, ignore the error, let the
-	 * next level up know.
+	 * else if it is the last working disks with "fail_last_dev == false",
+	 * ignore the error, let the next level up know.
 	 * else mark the drive as failed
 	 */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
-	if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)
+	if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) && !mddev->fail_last_dev
 	    && (conf->raid_disks - mddev->degraded) == 1) {
 		/*
 		 * Don't fail the drive, act as though we were just a
diff --git a/drivers/md/raid10.c b/drivers/md/raid10.c
index a982e040b609..299c7b1c9718 100644
--- a/drivers/md/raid10.c
+++ b/drivers/md/raid10.c
@@ -1640,12 +1640,12 @@ static void raid10_error(struct mddev *mddev, struct md_rdev *rdev)
 
 	/*
 	 * If it is not operational, then we have already marked it as dead
-	 * else if it is the last working disks, ignore the error, let the
-	 * next level up know.
+	 * else if it is the last working disks with "fail_last_dev == false",
+	 * ignore the error, let the next level up know.
 	 * else mark the drive as failed
 	 */
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&conf->device_lock, flags);
-	if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags)
+	if (test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) && !mddev->fail_last_dev
 	    && !enough(conf, rdev->raid_disk)) {
 		/*
 		 * Don't fail the drive, just return an IO error.