[PATCH v4 25/35] compiler: Let data_race() imply disabled context analysis
Marco Elver
elver at google.com
Thu Nov 20 15:09:50 UTC 2025
Many patterns that involve data-racy accesses often deliberately ignore
normal synchronization rules to avoid taking a lock.
If we have a lock-guarded variable on which we do a lock-less data-racy
access, rather than having to write context_unsafe(data_race(..)),
simply make the data_race(..) macro imply context-unsafety. The
data_race() macro already denotes the intent that something subtly
unsafe is about to happen, so it should be clear enough as-is.
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver at google.com>
---
v4:
* Rename capability -> context analysis.
v2:
* New patch.
---
include/linux/compiler.h | 2 ++
lib/test_context-analysis.c | 2 ++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h
index 5b45ea7dff3e..8ad1d4fd14e3 100644
--- a/include/linux/compiler.h
+++ b/include/linux/compiler.h
@@ -186,7 +186,9 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_likely_data *f, int val,
#define data_race(expr) \
({ \
__kcsan_disable_current(); \
+ disable_context_analysis(); \
__auto_type __v = (expr); \
+ enable_context_analysis(); \
__kcsan_enable_current(); \
__v; \
})
diff --git a/lib/test_context-analysis.c b/lib/test_context-analysis.c
index 522769c9586d..4612025a1065 100644
--- a/lib/test_context-analysis.c
+++ b/lib/test_context-analysis.c
@@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ static void __used test_raw_spinlock_trylock_extra(struct test_raw_spinlock_data
{
unsigned long flags;
+ data_race(d->counter++); /* no warning */
+
if (raw_spin_trylock_irq(&d->lock)) {
d->counter++;
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&d->lock);
--
2.52.0.rc1.455.g30608eb744-goog
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