diff --git a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
index babc731bd5f6..ce2ee8d87865 100644
--- a/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
+++ b/rust/kernel/sync/locked_by.rs
@@ -83,8 +83,12 @@ pub struct LockedBy<T: ?Sized, U: ?Sized> {
 // SAFETY: `LockedBy` can be transferred across thread boundaries iff the data it protects can.
 unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Send, U: ?Sized> Send for LockedBy<T, U> {}
 
-// SAFETY: `LockedBy` serialises the interior mutability it provides, so it is `Sync` as long as the
-// data it protects is `Send`.
+// SAFETY: If `T` is not `Sync`, then parallel shared access to this `LockedBy` allows you to use
+// `access_mut` to hand out `&mut T` on one thread at the time. The requirement that `T: Send` is
+// sufficient to allow that.
+//
+// If `T` is `Sync`, then the `access` method also becomes available, which allows you to obtain
+// several `&T` from several threads at once. However, this is okay as `T` is `Sync`.
 unsafe impl<T: ?Sized + Send, U: ?Sized> Sync for LockedBy<T, U> {}
 
 impl<T, U> LockedBy<T, U> {
@@ -118,7 +122,10 @@ impl<T: ?Sized, U> LockedBy<T, U> {
     ///
     /// Panics if `owner` is different from the data protected by the lock used in
     /// [`new`](LockedBy::new).
-    pub fn access<'a>(&'a self, owner: &'a U) -> &'a T {
+    pub fn access<'a>(&'a self, owner: &'a U) -> &'a T
+    where
+        T: Sync,
+    {
         build_assert!(
             size_of::<U>() > 0,
             "`U` cannot be a ZST because `owner` wouldn't be unique"
@@ -127,7 +134,10 @@ pub fn access<'a>(&'a self, owner: &'a U) -> &'a T {
             panic!("mismatched owners");
         }
 
-        // SAFETY: `owner` is evidence that the owner is locked.
+        // SAFETY: `owner` is evidence that there are only shared references to the owner for the
+        // duration of 'a, so it's not possible to use `Self::access_mut` to obtain a mutable
+        // reference to the inner value that aliases with this shared reference. The type is `Sync`
+        // so there are no other requirements.
         unsafe { &*self.data.get() }
     }