On Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:43:03 -0400 Tony Krowiak <akrowiak@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This solution was suggested by Jason G and it does in fact resolve > the lockdep splat encountered when starting an SE guest with > access to crypto resources. There is a chance that the KVM lock > can get held while waiting for the lock on the matrix_dev->mutex, > but this does not seem like a grave concern to me. Yes I agree. I was thinking along the lines: matrix modifications via the sysfs take the matrix_dev->lock so the level of contention may depend on what userspace is doing... Regards, Halil