diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 7e4a1da0715ea85c4f1340522b97e5ec1f4d9d04..9bfaee050c825f2ccb16981f693b4cc16f7557a9 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -891,14 +891,11 @@ generic_make_request_checks(struct bio *bio)
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Non-mq queues do not honor REQ_NOWAIT, so complete a bio
-	 * with BLK_STS_AGAIN status in order to catch -EAGAIN and
-	 * to give a chance to the caller to repeat request gracefully.
+	 * For a REQ_NOWAIT based request, return -EOPNOTSUPP
+	 * if queue is not a request based queue.
 	 */
-	if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) && !queue_is_mq(q)) {
-		status = BLK_STS_AGAIN;
-		goto end_io;
-	}
+	if ((bio->bi_opf & REQ_NOWAIT) && !queue_is_mq(q))
+		goto not_supported;
 
 	if (should_fail_bio(bio))
 		goto end_io;
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
index 3726dc780d15b1f3284f14eb16971d9ddf310ce6..cc46e250fcac22a075ab964a880e272b2f498433 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/pci.c
@@ -1382,16 +1382,19 @@ static void nvme_disable_admin_queue(struct nvme_dev *dev, bool shutdown)
 
 /*
  * Called only on a device that has been disabled and after all other threads
- * that can check this device's completion queues have synced. This is the
- * last chance for the driver to see a natural completion before
- * nvme_cancel_request() terminates all incomplete requests.
+ * that can check this device's completion queues have synced, except
+ * nvme_poll(). This is the last chance for the driver to see a natural
+ * completion before nvme_cancel_request() terminates all incomplete requests.
  */
 static void nvme_reap_pending_cqes(struct nvme_dev *dev)
 {
 	int i;
 
-	for (i = dev->ctrl.queue_count - 1; i > 0; i--)
+	for (i = dev->ctrl.queue_count - 1; i > 0; i--) {
+		spin_lock(&dev->queues[i].cq_poll_lock);
 		nvme_process_cq(&dev->queues[i]);
+		spin_unlock(&dev->queues[i].cq_poll_lock);
+	}
 }
 
 static int nvme_cmb_qdepth(struct nvme_dev *dev, int nr_io_queues,