[PATCH v3 07/35] lockdep: Annotate lockdep assertions for capability analysis

Marco Elver
2025-09-18T14:05:47Z

Clang's capability analysis can be made aware of functions that assert
that capabilities/locks are held.

Presence of these annotations causes the analysis to assume the
capability is held after calls to the annotated function, and avoid
false positives with complex control-flow; for example, where not all
control-flow paths in a function require a held lock, and therefore
marking the function with __must_hold(..) is inappropriate.

Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
---
v3:
* __assert -> __assume rename
---
include/linux/lockdep.h | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index 67964dc4db95..11b3d22555ff 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -282,16 +282,16 @@ extern void lock_unpin_lock(struct lockdep_map *lock, struct pin_cookie);
do { WARN_ON_ONCE(debug_locks && !(cond)); } while (0)

#define lockdep_assert_held(l) \
- lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held(l) != LOCK_STATE_NOT_HELD)
+ do { lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held(l) != LOCK_STATE_NOT_HELD); __assume_cap(l); } while (0)

#define lockdep_assert_not_held(l) \
lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held(l) != LOCK_STATE_HELD)

#define lockdep_assert_held_write(l) \
- lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held_type(l, 0))
+ do { lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held_type(l, 0)); __assume_cap(l); } while (0)

#define lockdep_assert_held_read(l) \
- lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held_type(l, 1))
+ do { lockdep_assert(lockdep_is_held_type(l, 1)); __assume_shared_cap(l); } while (0)

#define lockdep_assert_held_once(l) \
lockdep_assert_once(lockdep_is_held(l) != LOCK_STATE_NOT_HELD)
@@ -389,10 +389,10 @@ extern int lockdep_is_held(const void *);
#define lockdep_assert(c) do { } while (0)
#define lockdep_assert_once(c) do { } while (0)

-#define lockdep_assert_held(l) do { (void)(l); } while (0)
+#define lockdep_assert_held(l) __assume_cap(l)
#define lockdep_assert_not_held(l) do { (void)(l); } while (0)
-#define lockdep_assert_held_write(l) do { (void)(l); } while (0)
-#define lockdep_assert_held_read(l) do { (void)(l); } while (0)
+#define lockdep_assert_held_write(l) __assume_cap(l)
+#define lockdep_assert_held_read(l) __assume_shared_cap(l)
#define lockdep_assert_held_once(l) do { (void)(l); } while (0)
#define lockdep_assert_none_held_once() do { } while (0)

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