perf: Fix contexted inheritance
Linus reported that the RCU lockdep annotation bits triggered for this rcu_dereference() because we're not holding rcu_read_lock(). Going over the code I cannot convince myself its correct: - holding a ref on the parent_ctx, doesn't avoid it being uncloned concurrently (as the comment says), so we can race with a free. - holding parent_ctx->mutex doesn't avoid the above free from taking place either, it would at best avoid parent_ctx from being freed. I.e. the warning is correct. To fix the bug, serialize against the unclone_ctx() call by extending the reach of the parent_ctx->lock. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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