[PATCH] blk-mq: cleanup terminal request when it could not be queued
From: John Garry <hidden>
Date: 2026-09-11 07:54:46
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linux-scsi
Subsystem:
block layer, scsi subsystem, the rest · Maintainers:
Jens Axboe, "James E.J. Bottomley", "Martin K. Petersen", Linus Torvalds
Sashiko points out that the SCSI midlayer error handling misses some cleanup for when a request could not be queued and won't be requeued [0]. Specifically, clearing the SCSI cmd flags member is missing. Normally that would be cleared in the non-error path in scsi_end_request() (which also calls __blk_mq_end_request()). Callchain blk_mq_cleanup_rq() -> scsi_cleanup_rq() does all the necessary cleanup, so call that in blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list() for when there was an error in the dispatch and the rq will be ended. Note that dm-rq code calls blk_mq_cleanup_rq() for a cloned rq (or SCSI rq) for when the clone could not be queued and will be retried, but that path does not use the sched code (and blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list()). [0] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-scsi/20260729161243.C918D1F00A3A@smtp.kernel.org/ (local) Suggesested-by: Bart Van Assche [off-list ref] Signed-off-by: John Garry <redacted> --- Maybe SCSI should be doing this cleanup directly, as we now create some confusion on who should do the cleanup - blk-mq or the driver.
diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index a26a11c73ee3..eb3a481211d0 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c@@ -2126,6 +2126,7 @@ bool blk_mq_dispatch_rq_list(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, struct list_head *list, blk_mq_handle_dev_resource(rq, list); goto out; default: + blk_mq_cleanup_rq(rq); blk_mq_end_request(rq, ret); } } while (!list_empty(list));
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
index af27fd3df8d4..1ea65b5eb25c 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c@@ -1960,13 +1960,7 @@ static blk_status_t scsi_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx, cmd->result = DID_NO_CONNECT << 16; else cmd->result = DID_ERROR << 16; - /* - * Make sure to release all allocated resources when - * we hit an error, as we will never see this command - * again. - */ - if (req->rq_flags & RQF_DONTPREP) - scsi_mq_uninit_cmd(cmd); + /* blk-mq will cleanup our resources as the rq will end */ scsi_run_queue_async(sdev); break; }
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