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
LKML-Reference: <1271880131-3951-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c b/kernel/cgroup_freezer.c
index da5e13975531..e5c0244962b0 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