[bug report] WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 522 at block/genhd.c:144 bdev_count_inflight_rw+0x26e/0x410

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2025 at 10:02:19AM +0800, Yu Kuai wrote:
> Looks like this problem is related to nvme mpath, and it's using
> bio based disk IO accounting. I'm not familiar with this driver,
> however, can you try the following bpftrace script to check if
> start request and end request are balanced? From the log I guess
> it's related to mpath error handler, probably requeuing I/O.

nvme-mpath is a bio based driver.  It is a bit special in that
it passed down the bio it recived through to the lower-level
request based nvme transport driver, while most remapping drivers
always clone a bio.  I suspect that is messing up I/O accounting
here somehow.