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

[Guoqing Jiang]

On 8/25/22 1:59 PM, yangx.jy at fujitsu.com wrote:
> 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 am wondering if it is the same as the thread.

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-rdma/CAMGffEm22sP-oKK0D9=vOw77nbS05iwG7MC3DTVB0CyzVFhtXg@mail.gmail.com/

>> 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.

The simplest way is to call lockdep_off in case it is false alarm to 
avoid the
debugging effort, but not everyone likes the idea.

https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.0-rc2/C/ident/lockdep_off

Thanks,
Guoqing