if (!dev->zones)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
+       spin_lock_init(&dev->zone_lock);
        if (dev->zone_nr_conv >= dev->nr_zones) {
                dev->zone_nr_conv = dev->nr_zones - 1;
                pr_info("changed the number of conventional zones to %u",
                 * So use a local copy to avoid corruption of the device zone
                 * array.
                 */
+               spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
                memcpy(&zone, &dev->zones[first_zone + i],
                       sizeof(struct blk_zone));
+               spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
+
                error = cb(&zone, i, data);
                if (error)
                        return error;
 blk_status_t null_process_zoned_cmd(struct nullb_cmd *cmd, enum req_opf op,
                                    sector_t sector, sector_t nr_sectors)
 {
+       blk_status_t sts;
+       struct nullb_device *dev = cmd->nq->dev;
+
+       spin_lock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
        switch (op) {
        case REQ_OP_WRITE:
-               return null_zone_write(cmd, sector, nr_sectors, false);
+               sts = null_zone_write(cmd, sector, nr_sectors, false);
+               break;
        case REQ_OP_ZONE_APPEND:
-               return null_zone_write(cmd, sector, nr_sectors, true);
+               sts = null_zone_write(cmd, sector, nr_sectors, true);
+               break;
        case REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET:
        case REQ_OP_ZONE_RESET_ALL:
        case REQ_OP_ZONE_OPEN:
        case REQ_OP_ZONE_CLOSE:
        case REQ_OP_ZONE_FINISH:
-               return null_zone_mgmt(cmd, op, sector);
+               sts = null_zone_mgmt(cmd, op, sector);
+               break;
        default:
-               return null_process_cmd(cmd, op, sector, nr_sectors);
+               sts = null_process_cmd(cmd, op, sector, nr_sectors);
        }
+       spin_unlock_irq(&dev->zone_lock);
+
+       return sts;
 }