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+# Licensed under the GPL: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html
+# For details: https://github.com/PyCQA/pylint/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+from astroid import nodes
+
+from pylint import interfaces
+from pylint.checkers import BaseChecker
+from pylint.checkers.utils import check_messages, safe_infer
+
+
+class ThreadingChecker(BaseChecker):
+    """Checks for threading module
+
+    - useless with lock - locking used in wrong way that has no effect (with threading.Lock():)
+    """
+
+    __implements__ = interfaces.IAstroidChecker
+    name = "threading"
+
+    LOCKS = frozenset(
+        (
+            "threading.Lock",
+            "threading.RLock",
+            "threading.Condition",
+            "threading.Semaphore",
+            "threading.BoundedSemaphore",
+        )
+    )
+
+    msgs = {
+        "W2101": (
+            "'%s()' directly created in 'with' has no effect",
+            "useless-with-lock",
+            "Used when a new lock instance is created by using with statement "
+            "which has no effect. Instead, an existing instance should be used to acquire lock.",
+        ),
+    }
+
+    @check_messages("useless-with-lock")
+    def visit_with(self, node: nodes.With) -> None:
+
+        context_managers = (c for c, _ in node.items if isinstance(c, nodes.Call))
+        for context_manager in context_managers:
+            if isinstance(context_manager, nodes.Call):
+                infered_function = safe_infer(context_manager.func)
+                if infered_function is None:
+                    continue
+                qname = infered_function.qname()
+                if qname in self.LOCKS:
+                    self.add_message("useless-with-lock", node=node, args=qname)
+
+
+def register(linter):
+    """required method to auto register this checker"""
+    linter.register_checker(ThreadingChecker(linter))