Hi ming Thanks for your kindly response. On 06/12/2018 06:17 PM, Ming Lei wrote: > On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 6:04 PM, jianchao.wang > <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hi Jens and Christoph >> >> In the recent commit of new blk-mq timeout handling, we don't have any protection >> on timed out request against the completion path. We just hold a request->ref count, >> it just could avoid the request tag to be released and life-recycle, but not completion. >> >> For the scsi mid-layer, what if a request is in error handler and normal completion come >> at the moment ? > > Per my understanding, now the protection needs to be done completely by driver. > But looks like the drivers have not prepared well to take over this work right now. Thanks Jianchao > > Thanks, > Ming Lei >