Hi, Since 45a9c9d909b2 ("blk-mq: Fix a use-after-free"), run queue isn't allowed during cleanup queue even though queue refcount is held. This change has caused lots of kernel oops triggered in run queue path, turns out it isn't easy to fix them all. So move freeing of hw queue resources into hctx's release handler, then the above issue is fixed. Meantime, this way is safe given freeing hw queue resource doesn't require tags. V3 covers more races. V4: - add patch for fixing potential use-after-free in blk_mq_update_nr_hw_queues - fix comment in the last patch V3: - cancel q->requeue_work in queue's release handler - cancel hctx->run_work in hctx's release handler - add patch 1 for fixing race in plug code path - the last patch is added for avoiding to grab SCSI's refcont in IO path V2: - moving freeing hw queue resources into hctx's release handler Ming Lei (7): blk-mq: grab .q_usage_counter when queuing request from plug code path blk-mq: move cancel of requeue_work into blk_mq_release blk-mq: quiesce queue before updating nr_hw_queues blk-mq: free hw queue's resource in hctx's release handler blk-mq: move cancel of hctx->run_work into blk_mq_hw_sysfs_release block: don't drain in-progress dispatch in blk_cleanup_queue() SCSI: don't hold device refcount in IO path block/blk-core.c | 23 +---------------------- block/blk-mq-sysfs.c | 8 ++++++++ block/blk-mq.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++-------- block/blk-mq.h | 2 +- drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c | 28 ++-------------------------- 5 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) Cc: Dongli Zhang <dongli.zhang@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Smart <james.smart@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx> Cc: linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Cc: Martin K . Petersen <martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx>, Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>, Cc: James E . J . Bottomley <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Cc: jianchao wang <jianchao.w.wang@xxxxxxxxxx> -- 2.9.5