Re: [PATCH v2] arm_mpam: make the mon_sel guard conditional only

From: Ben Horgan

Date: Fri Oct 09 2026 - 13:08:08 EST


Hi Sasha,

On 10/9/26 17:32, Sasha Levin wrote:
> Building arm64 allmodconfig with clang fails:
>
> drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h:207:7: error: ignoring return value
> of function declared with 'warn_unused_result' attribute
> [-Werror,-Wunused-result]
> 207 | mpam_mon_sel_lock(_T), mpam_mon_sel_unlock(_T));
>
> mpam_mon_sel_lock() is __must_check and can fail: for an MSC accessed
> through the MPAM-Fb firmware interface it returns false when called
> from a context that cannot sleep. The mon_sel guard was defined with
> DEFINE_GUARD(), which calls it unconditionally and discards the
> result, so a guard(mon_sel) user would carry on without the lock and
> release it on scope exit. The unconditional guard only exists as the
> base for the conditional mon_sel_lock variant, which is the one
> actually used.
>
> Define mon_sel_lock directly as a conditional guard class instead, as
> posix-timers does for lock_timer: the constructor returns NULL when
> the lock cannot be taken, and the destructor only releases a lock
> that was taken. ACQUIRE(mon_sel_lock, ...) works as before, including
> ACQUIRE_ERR() returning -EBUSY on failure, and there is no
> unconditional variant left to misuse.
>
> Reported-by: kernelci.org bot <bot@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://d.kernelci.org/i/maestro:66f869ecbbb5b8592562ffd89f049c5ddf682547
> Closes: https://d.kernelci.org/i/maestro:647269216758644837afcaac8e67d8dbe713a0e2
> Fixes: 0db1715e4c9c ("arm_mpam: propagate MSC access errors for hw_probe functions")
> Assisted-by: LLM
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Ben Horgan <ben.horgan@xxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Ben

> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Use an if statement in the destructor, as suggested by Ben Horgan.
>
> drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> index ee7c3953a9b6c..1f86cc158100b 100644
> --- a/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> +++ b/drivers/resctrl/mpam_internal.h
> @@ -203,9 +203,10 @@ static inline int mpam_mon_sel_lock_init(struct device *dev,
> return devm_mutex_init(dev, &msc->mon_sel_mutex);
> }
>
> -DEFINE_GUARD(mon_sel, struct mpam_msc *,
> - mpam_mon_sel_lock(_T), mpam_mon_sel_unlock(_T));
> -DEFINE_GUARD_COND(mon_sel, _lock, mpam_mon_sel_lock(_T), _RET);
> +DEFINE_CLASS(mon_sel_lock, struct mpam_msc *,
> + if (_T) mpam_mon_sel_unlock(_T),
> + mpam_mon_sel_lock(msc) ? msc : NULL, struct mpam_msc *msc);
> +DEFINE_CLASS_IS_COND_GUARD(mon_sel_lock);
>
> /* Bits for mpam features bitmaps */
> enum mpam_device_features {