+ Linux-scsi > > diff --git a/block/blk-mq.h b/block/blk-mq.h > > index 9497b47..57432be 100644 > > --- a/block/blk-mq.h > > +++ b/block/blk-mq.h > > @@ -175,6 +175,7 @@ static inline bool > > blk_mq_get_dispatch_budget(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx) > > static inline void __blk_mq_put_driver_tag(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, > > struct request *rq) > > { > > + hctx->tags->rqs[rq->tag] = NULL; > > blk_mq_put_tag(hctx, hctx->tags, rq->mq_ctx, rq->tag); > > rq->tag = -1; > > No SCSI driver should call scsi_host_find_tag() after a request has > finished. The above patch introduces yet another race and hence can't be > a proper fix. Bart, many scsi drivers use scsi_host_find_tag() to traverse max tag_id to find out pending IO in firmware. One of the use case is - HBA firmware recovery. In case of firmware recovery, driver may require to traverse the list and return back pending scsi command to SML for retry. I quickly grep the scsi code and found that snic_scsi, qla4xxx, fnic, mpt3sas are using API scsi_host_find_tag for the same purpose. Without this patch, we hit very basic kernel panic due to page fault. This is not an issue in non-mq code path. Non-mq path use blk_map_queue_find_tag() and that particular API does not provide stale requests. Kashyap > > Bart.