Found that commit 990e78116d38059c ("block: loop: fix deadlock between open and remove") went to 5.13-rc6. #syz fix: block: loop: fix deadlock between open and remove Now syzbot is reporting Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(nbd_index_mutex); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); lock(nbd_index_mutex); lock(&bdev->bd_mutex); at https://syzkaller.appspot.com/text?tag=CrashReport&x=11b8a5bbd00000 .