diff --git a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
index b874cb84bad9..2d46383e8d26 100644
--- a/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/block/ublk_drv.c
@@ -1020,6 +1020,13 @@ static inline bool ubq_daemon_is_dying(struct ublk_queue *ubq)
 	return ubq->ubq_daemon->flags & PF_EXITING;
 }
 
+static void ublk_end_request(struct request *req, blk_status_t error)
+{
+	local_bh_disable();
+	blk_mq_end_request(req, error);
+	local_bh_enable();
+}
+
 /* todo: handle partial completion */
 static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req)
 {
@@ -1027,6 +1034,7 @@ static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req)
 	struct ublk_io *io = &ubq->ios[req->tag];
 	unsigned int unmapped_bytes;
 	blk_status_t res = BLK_STS_OK;
+	bool requeue;
 
 	/* called from ublk_abort_queue() code path */
 	if (io->flags & UBLK_IO_FLAG_ABORTED) {
@@ -1064,14 +1072,30 @@ static inline void __ublk_complete_rq(struct request *req)
 	if (unlikely(unmapped_bytes < io->res))
 		io->res = unmapped_bytes;
 
-	if (blk_update_request(req, BLK_STS_OK, io->res))
+	/*
+	 * Run bio->bi_end_io() with softirqs disabled. If the final fput
+	 * happens off this path, then that will prevent ublk's blkdev_release()
+	 * from being called on current's task work, see fput() implementation.
+	 *
+	 * Otherwise, ublk server may not provide forward progress in case of
+	 * reading the partition table from bdev_open() with disk->open_mutex
+	 * held, and causes dead lock as we could already be holding
+	 * disk->open_mutex here.
+	 *
+	 * Preferably we would not be doing IO with a mutex held that is also
+	 * used for release, but this work-around will suffice for now.
+	 */
+	local_bh_disable();
+	requeue = blk_update_request(req, BLK_STS_OK, io->res);
+	local_bh_enable();
+	if (requeue)
 		blk_mq_requeue_request(req, true);
 	else
 		__blk_mq_end_request(req, BLK_STS_OK);
 
 	return;
 exit:
-	blk_mq_end_request(req, res);
+	ublk_end_request(req, res);
 }
 
 static void ublk_complete_rq(struct kref *ref)
@@ -1149,7 +1173,7 @@ static inline void __ublk_abort_rq(struct ublk_queue *ubq,
 	if (ublk_nosrv_dev_should_queue_io(ubq->dev))
 		blk_mq_requeue_request(rq, false);
 	else
-		blk_mq_end_request(rq, BLK_STS_IOERR);
+		ublk_end_request(rq, BLK_STS_IOERR);
 }
 
 static inline void __ublk_rq_task_work(struct request *req,