Hello, again. On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 07:51:23AM -0700, Tejun Heo wrote: > Oh, it wasn't Joseph's change. It was Bart's fix for a problem > reported by Joseph. Bart, a063057d7c73 ("block: Fix a race between > request queue removal and the block cgroup controller") created a > regression where a request_queue can be destroyed with blkgs still > attached. The original report is.. > > http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180407102148.GA9729@xxxxxxxxx And looking at the change, it looks like the right thing we should have done is caching @lock on the print_blkg side and when switching locks make sure both locks are held. IOW, do the following in blk_cleanup_queue() spin_lock_irq(lock); if (q->queue_lock != &q->__queue_lock) { spin_lock(&q->__queue_lock); q->queue_lock = &q->__queue_lock; spin_unlock(&q->__queue_lock); } spin_unlock_irq(lock); Otherwise, there can be two lock holders thinking they have exclusive access to the request_queue. Thanks. -- tejun