If queue is dying while iolatency_set_limit() is in progress, blk_get_queue() won't increment the refcount of the queue. However, blk_put_queue() will still decrement the refcount later, which will cause the refcout to be unbalanced. Thus error out in such case to fix the problem. Fixes: 8c772a9bfc7c ("blk-iolatency: fix IO hang due to negative inflight counter") Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> --- block/blk-iolatency.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/block/blk-iolatency.c b/block/blk-iolatency.c index 81be0096411d..d8b0d8bd132b 100644 --- a/block/blk-iolatency.c +++ b/block/blk-iolatency.c @@ -833,7 +833,11 @@ static ssize_t iolatency_set_limit(struct kernfs_open_file *of, char *buf, enable = iolatency_set_min_lat_nsec(blkg, lat_val); if (enable) { - WARN_ON_ONCE(!blk_get_queue(blkg->q)); + if (!blk_get_queue(blkg->q)) { + ret = -ENODEV; + goto out; + } + blkg_get(blkg); } -- 2.31.1