[PATCH v3 07/18] nvme: add context annotations for nvme_subsystem::lock

Nilay Shroff nilay at linux.ibm.com
Mon Jul 6 07:14:09 PDT 2026


Several helpers access or traverse data structures protected by
nvme_subsystem::lock and therefore require callers to hold the lock.
Annotate nvme_mpath_unfreeze(), nvme_mpath_wait_freeze(),
nvme_mpath_start_freeze(), nvme_find_ns_head(), nvme_alloc_ns_head()
and nvme_subsys_check_duplicate_ids() with __must_hold(&subsys->lock)
so that Clang's lock context analysis can validate the locking
requirements at compile time.

Also annotate nvme_subsystem::nsheads and
nvme_ns_head::delayed_removal_secs with __guarded_by(&subsys->lock),
as both are protected by the subsystem lock.

Wrap the initialization of nvme_subsystem::nsheads with
context_unsafe(...) to suppress the context analysis warning emitted
for INIT_LIST_HEAD() during object initialization.

nvme_ns_head is allocated with kzalloc(), so explicitly initializing
nvme_ns_head::delayed_removal_secs to 0 in nvme_mpath_alloc_disk() is
redundant. Remove the redundant initialization, which also avoids a
false positive from Clang's context analysis.

Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay at linux.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/nvme/host/core.c      |  6 +++++-
 drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c |  1 -
 drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h      | 15 ++++++++++-----
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index d6a095e1e44e..9cdde56c97bc 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -3286,7 +3286,8 @@ static int nvme_init_subsystem(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_id_ctrl *id)
 	mutex_init(&subsys->lock);
 	kref_init(&subsys->ref);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&subsys->ctrls);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&subsys->nsheads);
+	/* Initialize unpublished lock-guarded variable. */
+	context_unsafe(INIT_LIST_HEAD(&subsys->nsheads));
 	nvme_init_subnqn(subsys, ctrl, id);
 	memcpy(subsys->serial, id->sn, sizeof(subsys->serial));
 	memcpy(subsys->model, id->mn, sizeof(subsys->model));
@@ -3845,6 +3846,7 @@ static const struct file_operations nvme_dev_fops = {
 
 static struct nvme_ns_head *nvme_find_ns_head(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
 		unsigned nsid)
+	__must_hold(&ctrl->subsys->lock)
 {
 	struct nvme_ns_head *h;
 
@@ -3867,6 +3869,7 @@ static struct nvme_ns_head *nvme_find_ns_head(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
 
 static int nvme_subsys_check_duplicate_ids(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys,
 		struct nvme_ns_ids *ids)
+	__must_hold(&subsys->lock)
 {
 	bool has_uuid = !uuid_is_null(&ids->uuid);
 	bool has_nguid = memchr_inv(ids->nguid, 0, sizeof(ids->nguid));
@@ -3968,6 +3971,7 @@ static void nvme_add_ns_cdev(struct nvme_ns *ns)
 
 static struct nvme_ns_head *nvme_alloc_ns_head(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl,
 		struct nvme_ns_info *info)
+	__must_hold(&ctrl->subsys->lock)
 {
 	struct nvme_ns_head *head;
 	size_t size = sizeof(*head);
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
index 67fd0752e894..765c3fac2823 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/multipath.c
@@ -736,7 +736,6 @@ int nvme_mpath_alloc_disk(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, struct nvme_ns_head *head)
 	INIT_WORK(&head->requeue_work, nvme_requeue_work);
 	INIT_WORK(&head->partition_scan_work, nvme_partition_scan_work);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&head->remove_work, nvme_remove_head_work);
-	head->delayed_removal_secs = 0;
 
 	/*
 	 * If "multipath_always_on" is enabled, a multipath node is added
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
index 610c685e2263..602d567f3def 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/nvme.h
@@ -496,7 +496,8 @@ struct nvme_subsystem {
 	struct list_head	entry;
 	struct mutex		lock;
 	struct list_head	ctrls;
-	struct list_head	nsheads;
+	struct list_head	nsheads
+		__guarded_by(&lock);
 	char			subnqn[NVMF_NQN_SIZE];
 	char			serial[20];
 	char			model[40];
@@ -569,7 +570,8 @@ struct nvme_ns_head {
 	struct mutex		lock;
 	unsigned long		flags;
 	struct delayed_work	remove_work;
-	unsigned int		delayed_removal_secs;
+	unsigned int		delayed_removal_secs
+		__guarded_by(&subsys->lock);
 	atomic_long_t		io_requeue_no_usable_path_count;
 	atomic_long_t		io_fail_no_available_path_count;
 #define NVME_NSHEAD_DISK_LIVE		0
@@ -1041,9 +1043,12 @@ static inline bool nvme_ctrl_use_ana(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl)
 	return ctrl->ana_log_buf != NULL;
 }
 
-void nvme_mpath_unfreeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys);
-void nvme_mpath_wait_freeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys);
-void nvme_mpath_start_freeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys);
+void nvme_mpath_unfreeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys)
+	__must_hold(&subsys->lock);
+void nvme_mpath_wait_freeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys)
+	__must_hold(&subsys->lock);
+void nvme_mpath_start_freeze(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys)
+	__must_hold(&subsys->lock);
 void nvme_mpath_default_iopolicy(struct nvme_subsystem *subsys);
 void nvme_failover_req(struct request *req);
 void nvme_kick_requeue_lists(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl);
-- 
2.53.0




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