Hi Bart, On Mon, Jan 30, 2023 at 03:22:57PM -0800, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Since commit 0a9a25ca7843 ("block: let blkcg_gq grab request queue's > refcnt") for many request queues the reference count drops to 1 when > the request queue is destroyed instead of to 0. In other words, the > request queue is leaked. Fix this by reverting that commit. When/where you observe that the reference count drops to 1 instead of 0? Do you have kmem leak log? Probably, the last drop is in blkg_free_workfn(). Thanks, Ming