[PATCH v3 24/35] compiler-capability-analysis: Introduce header suppressions

Marco Elver
2025-09-18T14:06:34Z

While we can opt in individual subsystems which add the required
annotations, such subsystems inevitably include headers from other
subsystems which may not yet have the right annotations, which then
result in false positive warnings.

Making compatible by adding annotations across all common headers
currently requires an excessive number of __no_capability_analysis
annotations, or carefully analyzing non-trivial cases to add the correct
annotations. While this is desirable long-term, providing an incremental
path causes less churn and headaches for maintainers not yet interested
in dealing with such warnings.

Rather than clutter headers unnecessary and mandate all subsystem
maintainers to keep their headers working with capability analysis,
suppress all -Wthread-safety warnings in headers. Explicitly opt in
headers with capability-enabled primitives.

With this in place, we can start enabling the analysis on more complex
subsystems in subsequent changes.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
scripts/Makefile.capability-analysis | 4 +++
scripts/capability-analysis-suppression.txt | 32 +++++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 36 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 scripts/capability-analysis-suppression.txt

diff --git a/scripts/Makefile.capability-analysis b/scripts/Makefile.capability-analysis
index e137751a4c9a..76ef93ce2466 100644
--- a/scripts/Makefile.capability-analysis
+++ b/scripts/Makefile.capability-analysis
@@ -4,4 +4,8 @@ capability-analysis-cflags := -DWARN_CAPABILITY_ANALYSIS \
-fexperimental-late-parse-attributes -Wthread-safety \
-Wthread-safety-pointer -Wthread-safety-beta

+ifndef CONFIG_WARN_CAPABILITY_ANALYSIS_ALL
+capability-analysis-cflags += --warning-suppression-mappings=$(srctree)/scripts/capability-analysis-suppression.txt
+endif
+
export CFLAGS_CAPABILITY_ANALYSIS := $(capability-analysis-cflags)
diff --git a/scripts/capability-analysis-suppression.txt b/scripts/capability-analysis-suppression.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95fb0b65a8e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/capability-analysis-suppression.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
+#
+# The suppressions file should only match common paths such as header files.
+# For individual subsytems use Makefile directive CAPABILITY_ANALYSIS := [yn].
+#
+# The suppressions are ignored when CONFIG_WARN_CAPABILITY_ANALYSIS_ALL is
+# selected.
+
+[thread-safety]
+src:*arch/*/include/*
+src:*include/acpi/*
+src:*include/asm-generic/*
+src:*include/linux/*
+src:*include/net/*
+
+# Opt-in headers:
+src:*include/linux/bit_spinlock.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/cleanup.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/kref.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/list*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/local_lock*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/lockdep.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/mutex*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/rcupdate.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/refcount.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/rhashtable.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/rwlock*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/rwsem.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/seqlock*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/spinlock*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/srcu*.h=emit
+src:*include/linux/ww_mutex.h=emit
--
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