This patch fixes the lock inversion complaint: ============================================ WARNING: possible recursive locking detected 5.3.0-rc7-dbg+ #1 Not tainted -------------------------------------------- kworker/u16:6/171 is trying to acquire lock: 00000000035c6e6c (&id_priv->handler_mutex){+.+.}, at: rdma_destroy_id+0x78/0x4a0 [rdma_cm] but task is already holding lock: 00000000bc7c307d (&id_priv->handler_mutex){+.+.}, at: iw_conn_req_handler+0x151/0x680 [rdma_cm] other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(&id_priv->handler_mutex); lock(&id_priv->handler_mutex); *** DEADLOCK *** May be due to missing lock nesting notation 3 locks held by kworker/u16:6/171: #0: 00000000e2eaa773 ((wq_completion)iw_cm_wq){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x472/0xac0 #1: 000000001efd357b ((work_completion)(&work->work)#3){+.+.}, at: process_one_work+0x476/0xac0 #2: 00000000bc7c307d (&id_priv->handler_mutex){+.+.}, at: iw_conn_req_handler+0x151/0x680 [rdma_cm] stack backtrace: CPU: 3 PID: 171 Comm: kworker/u16:6 Not tainted 5.3.0-rc7-dbg+ #1 Hardware name: Bochs Bochs, BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Workqueue: iw_cm_wq cm_work_handler [iw_cm] Call Trace: dump_stack+0x8a/0xd6 __lock_acquire.cold+0xe1/0x24d lock_acquire+0x106/0x240 __mutex_lock+0x12e/0xcb0 mutex_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30 rdma_destroy_id+0x78/0x4a0 [rdma_cm] iw_conn_req_handler+0x5c9/0x680 [rdma_cm] cm_work_handler+0xe62/0x1100 [iw_cm] process_one_work+0x56d/0xac0 worker_thread+0x7a/0x5d0 kthread+0x1bc/0x210 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30 Cc: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steve Wise <larrystevenwise@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Bernard Metzler <BMT@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Krishnamraju Eraparaju <krishna2@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: de910bd92137 ("RDMA/cma: Simplify locking needed for serialization of callbacks"; v2.6.27). Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> --- drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c index 0e3cf3461999..d78f67623f24 100644 --- a/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c +++ b/drivers/infiniband/core/cma.c @@ -2396,9 +2396,10 @@ static int iw_conn_req_handler(struct iw_cm_id *cm_id, conn_id->cm_id.iw = NULL; cma_exch(conn_id, RDMA_CM_DESTROYING); mutex_unlock(&conn_id->handler_mutex); + mutex_unlock(&listen_id->handler_mutex); cma_deref_id(conn_id); rdma_destroy_id(&conn_id->id); - goto out; + return ret; } mutex_unlock(&conn_id->handler_mutex); -- 2.23.0.444.g18eeb5a265-goog