Hi Paolo, Looks this one is introduced in recent merge, and it is triggered in test of IO vs. removing device on the latest for-next of block tree: [ 296.151615] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000436 [ 296.152302] IP: percpu_counter_add_batch+0x25/0x9d [ 296.152698] PGD 0 P4D 0 [ 296.152916] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP [ 296.153233] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 296.153517] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 296.153817] Modules linked in: scsi_debug(E) null_blk(E) isofs(E) iTCO_wdt(E) iTCO_vendor_support(E) i2c_i801(E) i2c_core(E) lpc_ich(E) mfd_core(E) ip_tables(E) sr_mod(E) cdrom(E) sd_mod(E) usb_storage(E) ahci(E) libahci(E) libata(E) crc32c_intel(E) virtio_scsi(E) qemu_fw_cfg(E) dm_mirror(E) dm_region_hash(E) dm_log(E) dm_mod(E) [last unloaded: scsi_debug] [ 296.156199] CPU: 2 PID: 2001 Comm: scsi_id Tainted: G E 4.15.0-rc7790529290ab3_my_v4.15-rc-block-for-next #4 [ 296.156961] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.9.3-1.fc25 04/01/2014 [ 296.157546] RIP: 0010:percpu_counter_add_batch+0x25/0x9d [ 296.157920] RSP: 0018:ffffc90001133b28 EFLAGS: 00010002 [ 296.158285] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: ffffffffffffff6e RCX: 0000000000000001 [ 296.158779] RDX: 000000003fffffff RSI: ffffffff81e95429 RDI: ffffffff81e5e64c [ 296.159276] RBP: 0000000000000416 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001 [ 296.159770] R10: ffffc90001133aa0 R11: ffff88007e96caf0 R12: 000000003fffffff [ 296.160273] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: 0000000000000001 R15: ffffe8ffffd0b180 [ 296.160780] FS: 00007f635988af80(0000) GS:ffff88007cf00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 296.161325] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 296.161744] CR2: 0000000000000436 CR3: 00000000717f1005 CR4: 00000000003606e0 [ 296.162258] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 [ 296.162764] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 [ 296.163246] Call Trace: [ 296.163445] bfqg_stats_update_io_add+0x35/0xdc [ 296.163754] bfq_insert_requests+0xbb9/0xbf2 [ 296.164049] ? blk_rq_bio_prep+0x51/0x5d [ 296.164353] ? blk_rq_append_bio+0x32/0x78 [ 296.164633] ? blk_rq_map_user_iov+0x11b/0x1a0 [ 296.164940] blk_mq_sched_insert_request+0xaf/0x12f [ 296.165273] blk_execute_rq+0x4b/0x93 [ 296.165586] sg_io+0x236/0x38a [ 296.165800] scsi_cmd_ioctl+0x1d4/0x381 [ 296.166065] ? seccomp_run_filters+0xee/0x12d [ 296.166362] ? preempt_count_add+0x6d/0x8c [ 296.166643] sd_ioctl+0xbb/0xde [sd_mod] [ 296.166915] blkdev_ioctl+0x7f2/0x850 [ 296.167167] block_ioctl+0x39/0x3c [ 296.167401] vfs_ioctl+0x1b/0x28 [ 296.167622] do_vfs_ioctl+0x4bc/0x542 [ 296.167877] ? syscall_trace_enter+0x164/0x261 [ 296.168180] SyS_ioctl+0x3e/0x5a [ 296.168402] do_syscall_64+0x71/0x168 [ 296.168654] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25 [ 296.168970] RIP: 0033:0x7f63593a1dc7 [ 296.169214] RSP: 002b:00007fff87210878 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010 [ 296.169823] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fff872108b0 RCX: 00007f63593a1dc7 [ 296.170303] RDX: 00007fff872108b0 RSI: 0000000000002285 RDI: 0000000000000004 [ 296.170783] RBP: 00007fff87210f00 R08: 0000000000002006 R09: 00000000fffffe00 [ 296.171266] R10: 00007fff87210910 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000ffffffff [ 296.171745] R13: 00007fff872108b0 R14: 00007fff872108ba R15: 00007fff872112b0 [ 296.172228] Code: 5d 41 5c 41 5d c3 41 55 41 54 49 89 f5 55 53 48 89 fd bf 01 00 00 00 41 89 d4 e8 8c 19 d4 ff 48 c7 c7 29 54 e9 81 e8 fd 3d ff ff <48> 8b 45 20 49 63 d4 65 8b 18 48 63 db 4c 01 eb 48 39 d3 7d 0b [ 296.173594] RIP: percpu_counter_add_batch+0x25/0x9d RSP: ffffc90001133b28 [ 296.174054] CR2: 0000000000000436 [ 296.174283] ---[ end trace 87b58f9235daac7e ]--- [ 296.174673] Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception [ 297.270432] Shutting down cpus with NMI [ 297.271020] Dumping ftrace buffer: [ 297.271262] (ftrace buffer empty) [ 297.271513] Kernel Offset: disabled [ 297.271760] ---[ end Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception -- Ming