Re: [PATCH v5 9/9] submodule: support reading .gitmodules when it's not in the working tree

> Protecting the problematic submodules function could work for now, but
> I'd like to have more comments, my proposal is:
>
> diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
> index 601f801158..52b45de749 100644
> --- a/builtin/grep.c
> +++ b/builtin/grep.c
> @@ -427,6 +427,11 @@ static int grep_submodule(struct grep_opt *opt, struct repository *superproject,
>         if (repo_submodule_init(&submodule, superproject, path))
>                 return 0;
>
> +       grep_read_lock();
> +       /*
> +        * NEEDSWORK: repo_read_gitmodules accesses the object store which is
> +        * global, thus it needs to be protected.
> +        */
>         repo_read_gitmodules(&submodule);
>
>         /*
> @@ -439,7 +444,6 @@ static int grep_submodule(struct grep_opt *opt, struct repository *superproject,
>          * store is no longer global and instead is a member of the repository
>          * object.
>          */
> -       grep_read_lock();
>         add_to_alternates_memory(submodule.objects->objectdir);
>         grep_read_unlock();