Re: WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected in nbd
On Thu, Aug 19, 2021 at 03:29:38PM +0800, Hillf Danton wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Aug 2021 09:10:49 +0200 Sven Schnelle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i'm seeing the lockdep splat below in CI. I think this is because
>
> Thanks for reporting it.
>
> > nbd_open is called with disk->open_mutex held, and acquires
> > nbd_index_mutex. However, nbd_put() first takes the nbd_index_lock,
> > and calls del_gendisk, which locks disk->open_mutex, so the order is
> > reversed.
>
> Right. See diff attached.
This is already fixed in linux-next.
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