Re: [bug report] WARNING: possible circular locking at: rdma_destroy_id+0x17/0x20 [rdma_cm] triggered by blktests nvmeof-mp/002

yangx.jy
2022-08-25T06:02:51Z

On 2022/5/25 19:01, Sagi Grimberg wrote:
> iirc this was reported before, based on my analysis lockdep is giving
> a false alarm here. The reason is that the id_priv->handler_mutex cannot
> be the same for both cm_id that is handling the connect and the cm_id
> that is handling the rdma_destroy_id because rdma_destroy_id call
> is always called on a already disconnected cm_id, so this deadlock
> lockdep is complaining about cannot happen.

Hi Jason, Bart and Sagi,

I also think it is actually a false positive. The cm_id handling the
connection and the cm_id calling rdma_destroy_id() cannot be the same
one, right?

>
> I'm not sure how to settle this.

Do you have any suggestion to remove the false positive by refactoring
the related RDMA/CM code. Sorry, I didn't know how to do it for now.

Best Regards,
Xiao Yang