On 2025/07/08 9:18, Hillf Danton wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 10:39:44 -0700 Bart Van Assche wrote: >> On 7/6/25 5:59 PM, Hillf Danton wrote: >>> and given the second one, the report is false positive. >> >> Whether or not this report is a false positive, the root cause should be >> fixed because lockdep disables itself after the first circular locking >> complaint. From print_usage_bug() in kernel/locking/lockdep.c: >> >> if (!debug_locks_off() || debug_locks_silent) >> return; >> > The root cause could be walked around for example by trying not to init > nbd more than once. How did you come to think so? nbd_init() is already called only once because of module_init(nbd_init).