diff --git a/block/blk-core.c b/block/blk-core.c
index 860a039fd1a8..c2c81c5b7420 100644
--- a/block/blk-core.c
+++ b/block/blk-core.c
@@ -946,6 +946,20 @@ static void blk_rq_timed_out_timer(struct timer_list *t)
 	kblockd_schedule_work(&q->timeout_work);
 }
 
+/**
+ * blk_alloc_queue_node - allocate a request queue
+ * @gfp_mask: memory allocation flags
+ * @node_id: NUMA node to allocate memory from
+ * @lock: Pointer to a spinlock that will be used to e.g. serialize calls to
+ *	  the legacy .request_fn(). Only set this pointer for queues that use
+ *	  legacy mode and not for queues that use blk-mq.
+ *
+ * Note: pass the queue lock as the third argument to this function instead of
+ * setting the queue lock pointer explicitly to avoid triggering a crash in
+ * the blkcg throttling code. That code namely makes sysfs attributes visible
+ * in user space before this function returns and the show methods of these
+ * sysfs attributes use the queue lock.
+ */
 struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id,
 					   spinlock_t *lock)
 {
@@ -998,11 +1012,7 @@ struct request_queue *blk_alloc_queue_node(gfp_t gfp_mask, int node_id,
 	mutex_init(&q->sysfs_lock);
 	spin_lock_init(&q->__queue_lock);
 
-	/*
-	 * By default initialize queue_lock to internal lock and driver can
-	 * override it later if need be.
-	 */
-	q->queue_lock = &q->__queue_lock;
+	q->queue_lock = lock ? : &q->__queue_lock;
 
 	/*
 	 * A queue starts its life with bypass turned on to avoid
@@ -1089,13 +1099,11 @@ blk_init_queue_node(request_fn_proc *rfn, spinlock_t *lock, int node_id)
 {
 	struct request_queue *q;
 
-	q = blk_alloc_queue_node(GFP_KERNEL, node_id, NULL);
+	q = blk_alloc_queue_node(GFP_KERNEL, node_id, lock);
 	if (!q)
 		return NULL;
 
 	q->request_fn = rfn;
-	if (lock)
-		q->queue_lock = lock;
 	if (blk_init_allocated_queue(q) < 0) {
 		blk_cleanup_queue(q);
 		return NULL;
diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
index 4b4697a1f963..058247bc2f30 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_main.c
@@ -2822,7 +2822,7 @@ enum drbd_ret_code drbd_create_device(struct drbd_config_context *adm_ctx, unsig
 
 	drbd_init_set_defaults(device);
 
-	q = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL);
+	q = blk_alloc_queue_node(GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE, &resource->req_lock);
 	if (!q)
 		goto out_no_q;
 	device->rq_queue = q;
@@ -2854,7 +2854,6 @@ enum drbd_ret_code drbd_create_device(struct drbd_config_context *adm_ctx, unsig
 	/* Setting the max_hw_sectors to an odd value of 8kibyte here
 	   This triggers a max_bio_size message upon first attach or connect */
 	blk_queue_max_hw_sectors(q, DRBD_MAX_BIO_SIZE_SAFE >> 8);
-	q->queue_lock = &resource->req_lock;
 
 	device->md_io.page = alloc_page(GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!device->md_io.page)
diff --git a/drivers/block/umem.c b/drivers/block/umem.c
index 8077123678ad..5c7fb8cc4149 100644
--- a/drivers/block/umem.c
+++ b/drivers/block/umem.c
@@ -888,13 +888,14 @@ static int mm_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 	card->Active = -1;	/* no page is active */
 	card->bio = NULL;
 	card->biotail = &card->bio;
+	spin_lock_init(&card->lock);
 
-	card->queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL);
+	card->queue = blk_alloc_queue_node(GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE,
+					   &card->lock);
 	if (!card->queue)
 		goto failed_alloc;
 
 	blk_queue_make_request(card->queue, mm_make_request);
-	card->queue->queue_lock = &card->lock;
 	card->queue->queuedata = card;
 
 	tasklet_init(&card->tasklet, process_page, (unsigned long)card);
@@ -968,8 +969,6 @@ static int mm_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
 	dev_printk(KERN_INFO, &card->dev->dev,
 		"Window size %d bytes, IRQ %d\n", data, dev->irq);
 
-	spin_lock_init(&card->lock);
-
 	pci_set_drvdata(dev, card);
 
 	if (pci_write_cmd != 0x0F) 	/* If not Memory Write & Invalidate */
diff --git a/drivers/mmc/core/queue.c b/drivers/mmc/core/queue.c
index 5ecd54088988..bcf6ae03fa97 100644
--- a/drivers/mmc/core/queue.c
+++ b/drivers/mmc/core/queue.c
@@ -216,10 +216,9 @@ int mmc_init_queue(struct mmc_queue *mq, struct mmc_card *card,
 	int ret = -ENOMEM;
 
 	mq->card = card;
-	mq->queue = blk_alloc_queue(GFP_KERNEL);
+	mq->queue = blk_alloc_queue_node(GFP_KERNEL, NUMA_NO_NODE, lock);
 	if (!mq->queue)
 		return -ENOMEM;
-	mq->queue->queue_lock = lock;
 	mq->queue->request_fn = mmc_request_fn;
 	mq->queue->init_rq_fn = mmc_init_request;
 	mq->queue->exit_rq_fn = mmc_exit_request;
