sech1: do you think your patch is something we should add even if it doesn't fix the issue?

as in more correct than current code

It won't hurt. I think this is what I initially planned in that part of the code.

It avoids unnecessary locking

But I'm afraid it won't fix the issue (I thought about it more today)

I need to reproduce it locally. My laptop updated to Windows 10 22H2 yesterday, so maybe it got some new code and monerod will start crashing there too. I'll need to test