[PATCH 14/15] nvme: add Clang context annotations in tcp.c
Nilay Shroff
nilay at linux.ibm.com
Wed Jun 10 07:27:34 PDT 2026
The nvme_tcp_ctrl_list and nvme_tcp_ctrl::list are protected by
nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex. Annotate both with
__guarded_by(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex) so that Clang's context analysis
can validate accesses against the corresponding locking requirements.
It is safe to initialize nvme_tcp_ctrl::list while allocating the
controller object because the list entry has not yet been added to
nvme_tcp_ctrl_list. Annotate the initialization with context_unsafe()
to suppress the corresponding Clang warning.
After adding the above annotations, Clang reports the following
warning:
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c:2572:24: warning: passing pointer to variable 'list' requires holding mutex 'nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex'
[-Wthread-safety-pointer]
2572 | if (list_empty(&ctrl->list))
| ^
Fix the warning by performing the list_empty() check while holding
nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex.
Signed-off-by: Nilay Shroff <nilay at linux.ibm.com>
---
drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c | 19 ++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
index 68a1d7640494..86ef98aefeb4 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/tcp.c
@@ -182,13 +182,16 @@ struct nvme_tcp_queue {
void (*write_space)(struct sock *);
};
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
+static __guarded_by(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex) LIST_HEAD(nvme_tcp_ctrl_list);
+
struct nvme_tcp_ctrl {
/* read only in the hot path */
struct nvme_tcp_queue *queues;
struct blk_mq_tag_set tag_set;
/* other member variables */
- struct list_head list;
+ struct list_head list __guarded_by(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
struct blk_mq_tag_set admin_tag_set;
struct sockaddr_storage addr;
struct sockaddr_storage src_addr;
@@ -200,8 +203,6 @@ struct nvme_tcp_ctrl {
u32 io_queues[HCTX_MAX_TYPES];
};
-static LIST_HEAD(nvme_tcp_ctrl_list);
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
static struct workqueue_struct *nvme_tcp_wq;
static const struct blk_mq_ops nvme_tcp_mq_ops;
static const struct blk_mq_ops nvme_tcp_admin_mq_ops;
@@ -2568,10 +2569,11 @@ static void nvme_tcp_free_ctrl(struct nvme_ctrl *nctrl)
{
struct nvme_tcp_ctrl *ctrl = to_tcp_ctrl(nctrl);
- if (list_empty(&ctrl->list))
- goto free_ctrl;
-
mutex_lock(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
+ if (list_empty(&ctrl->list)) {
+ mutex_unlock(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
+ goto free_ctrl;
+ }
list_del(&ctrl->list);
mutex_unlock(&nvme_tcp_ctrl_mutex);
@@ -2910,7 +2912,10 @@ static struct nvme_tcp_ctrl *nvme_tcp_alloc_ctrl(struct device *dev,
if (!ctrl)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
- INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctrl->list);
+ /*
+ * Safe to init list while allocating ctrl object.
+ */
+ context_unsafe(INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctrl->list));
ctrl->ctrl.opts = opts;
ctrl->ctrl.queue_count = opts->nr_io_queues + opts->nr_write_queues +
opts->nr_poll_queues + 1;
--
2.53.0
More information about the Linux-nvme
mailing list