diff --git a/kernel/perf_event.c b/kernel/perf_event.c
index b782b7a79f00..76be4c7bf08e 100644
--- a/kernel/perf_event.c
+++ b/kernel/perf_event.c
@@ -6494,7 +6494,6 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
 
 	raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
 	parent_ctx->rotate_disable = 0;
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
 
 	child_ctx = child->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn];
 
@@ -6502,12 +6501,11 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
 		/*
 		 * Mark the child context as a clone of the parent
 		 * context, or of whatever the parent is a clone of.
-		 * Note that if the parent is a clone, it could get
-		 * uncloned at any point, but that doesn't matter
-		 * because the list of events and the generation
-		 * count can't have changed since we took the mutex.
+		 *
+		 * Note that if the parent is a clone, the holding of
+		 * parent_ctx->lock avoids it from being uncloned.
 		 */
-		cloned_ctx = rcu_dereference(parent_ctx->parent_ctx);
+		cloned_ctx = parent_ctx->parent_ctx;
 		if (cloned_ctx) {
 			child_ctx->parent_ctx = cloned_ctx;
 			child_ctx->parent_gen = parent_ctx->parent_gen;
@@ -6518,6 +6516,7 @@ int perf_event_init_context(struct task_struct *child, int ctxn)
 		get_ctx(child_ctx->parent_ctx);
 	}
 
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&parent_ctx->lock, flags);
 	mutex_unlock(&parent_ctx->mutex);
 
 	perf_unpin_context(parent_ctx);