diff --git a/.github/workflows/daily-nightly-jobs.yml b/.github/workflows/daily-nightly-jobs.yml
index ba0e412c55b4..65fd14ccb35d 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/daily-nightly-jobs.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/daily-nightly-jobs.yml
@@ -16,8 +16,6 @@ jobs:
   canary-arm64:
     runs-on: [self-hosted, ubuntu-20.04-arm64, ARM64]
     if: github.repository == 'rook/rook'
-    env:
-      BLOCK: /dev/sdb
 
     steps:
       - name: checkout
@@ -91,6 +89,12 @@ jobs:
       - name: wait for ceph to be ready
         run: tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh wait_for_ceph_to_be_ready "mon,mgr,osd,mds,rgw,rbd_mirror,fs_mirror" 1
 
+      - name: collect common logs
+        if: always()
+        uses: ./.github/workflows/collect-logs
+        with:
+          name: canary-arm64
+
       - name: teardown minikube, docker and kubectl
         if: always()
         run: |
@@ -100,24 +104,12 @@ jobs:
           sudo service docker stop
           sudo rm -rf  /usr/local/bin/minikube
           sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/kubectl
+          sudo modprobe -r nbd
 
       - name: remove /usr/bin/yq
         if: always()
         run: sudo rm -rf /usr/bin/yq
 
-      - name: collect common logs
-        if: always()
-        uses: ./.github/workflows/collect-logs
-        with:
-          name: canary-arm64
-
-      - name: upload canary test result
-        uses: actions/upload-artifact@50769540e7f4bd5e21e526ee35c689e35e0d6874 # v4.4.0
-        if: always()
-        with:
-          name: canary-arm64
-          path: test
-
   smoke-suite-quincy-devel:
     if: github.repository == 'rook/rook'
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
diff --git a/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh b/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
index 277a6f5f5739..0756a0f77360 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
+++ b/tests/scripts/github-action-helper.sh
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ function find_extra_block_dev() {
   boot_dev="$(sudo lsblk --noheading --list --output MOUNTPOINT,PKNAME | grep boot | awk '{print $2}')"
   echo "  == find_extra_block_dev(): boot_dev='$boot_dev'" >/dev/stderr # debug in case of future errors
   # --nodeps ignores partitions
-  extra_dev="$(sudo lsblk --noheading --list --nodeps --output KNAME | grep -v loop | grep -v "$boot_dev" | head -1)"
+  extra_dev="$(sudo lsblk --noheading --list --nodeps --output KNAME | egrep -v "($boot_dev|loop|nbd)" | head -1)"
   echo "  == find_extra_block_dev(): extra_dev='$extra_dev'" >/dev/stderr # debug in case of future errors
   echo "$extra_dev"                                                       # output of function
 }