On Fri, 2017-04-28 at 23:15 +0800, Ming Lei wrote: > +static inline bool blk_mq_sched_may_use_hw_tag(struct request_queue *q) > +{ > + if (q->tag_set->flags & BLK_MQ_F_TAG_SHARED) > + return false; > + > + if (blk_mq_get_queue_depth(q) < q->nr_requests) > + return false; > + > + return true; > +} The only user of shared tag sets I know of is scsi-mq. I think it's really unfortunate that this patch systematically disables BLK_MQ_F_SCHED_USE_HW_TAG for scsi-mq. > int blk_mq_update_nr_requests(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int nr) > { > struct blk_mq_tag_set *set = q->tag_set; > @@ -2681,9 +2694,12 @@ int blk_mq_update_nr_requests(struct request_queue *q, unsigned int nr) > break; > } > > - if (!ret) > + if (!ret) { > q->nr_requests = nr; > > + blk_mq_update_sched_flag(q); > + } > + > blk_mq_unfreeze_queue(q); > blk_mq_start_stopped_hw_queues(q, true); If a queue is created with a low value of nr_requests that will cause blk_mq_sched_alloc_tags() to skip allocation of .sched_tags. If nr_requests is increased, can that cause this function to clear BLK_MQ_F_SCHED_USE_HW_TAG while keeping hctx->sched_tags == NULL and hence trigger a NULL pointer dereference? Bart.