diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 6671f37..17a643f 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -9348,7 +9348,7 @@
 M:	Josef Bacik <jbacik@fb.com>
 S:	Maintained
 L:	linux-block@vger.kernel.org
-L:	nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net
+L:	nbd@other.debian.org
 F:	Documentation/blockdev/nbd.txt
 F:	drivers/block/nbd.c
 F:	include/uapi/linux/nbd.h
diff --git a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
index 980e730..de294d7 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq-debugfs.c
@@ -815,10 +815,14 @@ int blk_mq_debugfs_register(struct request_queue *q)
 		goto err;
 
 	/*
-	 * blk_mq_init_hctx() attempted to do this already, but q->debugfs_dir
+	 * blk_mq_init_sched() attempted to do this already, but q->debugfs_dir
 	 * didn't exist yet (because we don't know what to name the directory
 	 * until the queue is registered to a gendisk).
 	 */
+	if (q->elevator && !q->sched_debugfs_dir)
+		blk_mq_debugfs_register_sched(q);
+
+	/* Similarly, blk_mq_init_hctx() couldn't do this previously. */
 	queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
 		if (!hctx->debugfs_dir && blk_mq_debugfs_register_hctx(q, hctx))
 			goto err;
diff --git a/block/blk-throttle.c b/block/blk-throttle.c
index 0fea76a..17816a0 100644
--- a/block/blk-throttle.c
+++ b/block/blk-throttle.c
@@ -1911,11 +1911,11 @@ static void throtl_upgrade_state(struct throtl_data *td)
 
 		tg->disptime = jiffies - 1;
 		throtl_select_dispatch(sq);
-		throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(sq, false);
+		throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(sq, true);
 	}
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	throtl_select_dispatch(&td->service_queue);
-	throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(&td->service_queue, false);
+	throtl_schedule_next_dispatch(&td->service_queue, true);
 	queue_work(kthrotld_workqueue, &td->dispatch_work);
 }
 
diff --git a/block/bsg-lib.c b/block/bsg-lib.c
index dbddff8..15d25cc 100644
--- a/block/bsg-lib.c
+++ b/block/bsg-lib.c
@@ -207,20 +207,34 @@ static int bsg_init_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req, gfp_t gfp)
 	struct bsg_job *job = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req);
 	struct scsi_request *sreq = &job->sreq;
 
-	memset(job, 0, sizeof(*job));
+	/* called right after the request is allocated for the request_queue */
 
-	scsi_req_init(sreq);
-	sreq->sense_len = SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE;
-	sreq->sense = kzalloc(sreq->sense_len, gfp);
+	sreq->sense = kzalloc(SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE, gfp);
 	if (!sreq->sense)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static void bsg_initialize_rq(struct request *req)
+{
+	struct bsg_job *job = blk_mq_rq_to_pdu(req);
+	struct scsi_request *sreq = &job->sreq;
+	void *sense = sreq->sense;
+
+	/* called right before the request is given to the request_queue user */
+
+	memset(job, 0, sizeof(*job));
+
+	scsi_req_init(sreq);
+
+	sreq->sense = sense;
+	sreq->sense_len = SCSI_SENSE_BUFFERSIZE;
+
 	job->req = req;
-	job->reply = sreq->sense;
+	job->reply = sense;
 	job->reply_len = sreq->sense_len;
 	job->dd_data = job + 1;
-
-	return 0;
 }
 
 static void bsg_exit_rq(struct request_queue *q, struct request *req)
@@ -251,6 +265,7 @@ struct request_queue *bsg_setup_queue(struct device *dev, const char *name,
 	q->cmd_size = sizeof(struct bsg_job) + dd_job_size;
 	q->init_rq_fn = bsg_init_rq;
 	q->exit_rq_fn = bsg_exit_rq;
+	q->initialize_rq_fn = bsg_initialize_rq;
 	q->request_fn = bsg_request_fn;
 
 	ret = blk_init_allocated_queue(q);
diff --git a/drivers/block/Kconfig b/drivers/block/Kconfig
index 4a438b8..2dfe99b 100644
--- a/drivers/block/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/block/Kconfig
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 
 config BLK_DEV_NULL_BLK
 	tristate "Null test block driver"
-	depends on CONFIGFS_FS
+	select CONFIGFS_FS
 
 config BLK_DEV_FD
 	tristate "Normal floppy disk support"
diff --git a/drivers/block/nbd.c b/drivers/block/nbd.c
index 3684e21..883dfeb 100644
--- a/drivers/block/nbd.c
+++ b/drivers/block/nbd.c
@@ -820,9 +820,13 @@ static blk_status_t nbd_queue_rq(struct blk_mq_hw_ctx *hctx,
 	 * appropriate.
 	 */
 	ret = nbd_handle_cmd(cmd, hctx->queue_num);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		ret = BLK_STS_IOERR;
+	else if (!ret)
+		ret = BLK_STS_OK;
 	complete(&cmd->send_complete);
 
-	return ret < 0 ? BLK_STS_IOERR : BLK_STS_OK;
+	return ret;
 }
 
 static int nbd_add_socket(struct nbd_device *nbd, unsigned long arg,