On Wed, Sep 15, 2021 at 05:20:08PM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote: > Currently, blk_mq_end_request() will be called if nbd_queue_rq() > failed, thus start request in such situation is useless. > > Signed-off-by: Yu Kuai <yukuai3@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> > --- > drivers/block/nbd.c | 3 --- > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c > index c724a5bd7fa4..22c91d8901f6 100644 > --- a/drivers/block/nbd.c > +++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c > @@ -934,7 +934,6 @@ static int nbd_handle_cmd(struct nbd_cmd *cmd, int index) > if (!refcount_inc_not_zero(&nbd->config_refs)) { > dev_err_ratelimited(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), > "Socks array is empty\n"); > - blk_mq_start_request(req); > return -EINVAL; > } > config = nbd->config; > @@ -943,7 +942,6 @@ static int nbd_handle_cmd(struct nbd_cmd *cmd, int index) > dev_err_ratelimited(disk_to_dev(nbd->disk), > "Attempted send on invalid socket\n"); > nbd_config_put(nbd); > - blk_mq_start_request(req); > return -EINVAL; > } > cmd->status = BLK_STS_OK; > @@ -967,7 +965,6 @@ static int nbd_handle_cmd(struct nbd_cmd *cmd, int index) > */ > sock_shutdown(nbd); > nbd_config_put(nbd); > - blk_mq_start_request(req); > return -EIO; > } It is basically a partial revert of the following fix, care to add commit log about why removing these blk_mq_start_request() is safe? commit 6a468d5990ecd1c2d07dd85f8633bbdd0ba61c40 Author: Josef Bacik <jbacik@xxxxxx> Date: Mon Nov 6 16:11:58 2017 -0500 nbd: don't start req until after the dead connection logic Thanks, Ming