On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 04:15:37PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote: > +++ b/block/blk-core.c > @@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ void blk_queue_exit(struct request_queue *q) > { > percpu_ref_put(&q->q_usage_counter); > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(blk_queue_exit); These needs to be an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL. But more importantly it needs to be a separate properly documented patch, and this function needs to grow a kerneldoc comment as well. > + /* > + * Get q_usage_counter can prevent accessing freed request > + * through blk_mq_tag_to_rq() in nbd_handle_reply(). If > + * q_usage_counter is zero, then no request is inflight, which > + * means something is wrong since we expect to find a request to > + * complete here. > + */ > + if (!percpu_ref_tryget(&q->q_usage_counter)) { > + dev_err(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), "%s: no io inflight\n", > + __func__); > + break; > + } And this needs a properly documented wrapper as well. > + > cmd = nbd_handle_reply(nbd, args->index, &reply); > - if (IS_ERR(cmd)) > + if (IS_ERR(cmd)) { > + blk_queue_exit(q); > break; > + } > > rq = blk_mq_rq_from_pdu(cmd); > if (likely(!blk_should_fake_timeout(rq->q))) > blk_mq_complete_request(rq); > + blk_queue_exit(q); That being said I can't say I like how this exposed block layer internals. We don't really need a reference to the queue here anywhere, you just use it as a dumb debug check. If we really want to reuse (abuse?) q_usage_counter a helper to just grab a reference and immediately drop it might be a better fit.