[PATCH v3 14/18] list: Permit context-unguarded access with list_empty_careful()

[Nilay Shroff]

Hi Marco,

On 7/9/26 12:00 PM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 06, 2026 at 07:44:16PM +0530, Nilay Shroff wrote:
>> From: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
>>
>> With Context Analysis (viz. Clang's Thread Safety Analysis), list_heads
>> that are __guarded_by(..) require holding the appropriate context lock
>> when accessing and manipulating them via the list API. Because Clang's
>> warning diagnostics do not perform inter-procedural analysis, this is
>> enforced by Clang with -Wthread-safety-pointer in the caller at the call
>> boundary; a warning is produced when passing a pointer to a guarded
>> variable without holding the appropriate context locks:
> 
> Same thing here, maybe try to get this to Linus late in the current
> window as it's trivial and makes dependency management much easier.
> 
> If that doesn't work, move it to the front of the series.
> 

Would it be possible for you to send a pull request for Linus directly, or
would it need to go through another maintainer?

If you're able to send it directly, we also have patch 09/18 in this
series that should go to Linus. In that case, I'd suggest including both
patches in the same pull request.

Otherwise, as Christoph suggested, I'll move these patches to the
beginning of the series in the next revision.

Thanks,
--Nilay