From 8b46f880841aac821af8efa6581bb0e46b8b9845 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:02:08 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Li Zefan 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 LKML-Reference: <1271880131-3951-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/cgroup_freezer.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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 @@ static void freezer_fork(struct cgroup_subsys *ss, struct task_struct *task) * 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 -- 2.7.4