rcu: Fix RCU lockdep splat on freezer_fork path
Add an RCU read-side critical section to suppress this false
positive.
Located-by: Eric Paris <eparis@parisplace.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
index da5e139..e5c0244 100644
--- a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
+++ b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
@@ -205,9 +205,12 @@
* No lock is needed, since the task isn't on tasklist yet,
* so it can't be moved to another cgroup, which means the
* freezer won't be removed and will be valid during this
- * function call.
+ * function call. Nevertheless, apply RCU read-side critical
+ * section to suppress RCU lockdep false positives.
*/
+ rcu_read_lock();
freezer = task_freezer(task);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
/*
* The root cgroup is non-freezable, so we can skip the