Our read_inode doesn't need to grab the superblock rwsem because there no chance it could be affected by branch management. But our read_inode was called from other places which did grab need to grab that rwsem, and lockdep complained. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/unionfs/super.c | 3 --- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/super.c b/fs/unionfs/super.c index c474c86..8b70aca 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/super.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/super.c @@ -29,8 +29,6 @@ static void unionfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode) int size; struct unionfs_inode_info *info = UNIONFS_I(inode); - unionfs_read_lock(inode->i_sb); - memset(info, 0, offsetof(struct unionfs_inode_info, vfs_inode)); info->bstart = -1; info->bend = -1; @@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ static void unionfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode) inode->i_mtime.tv_sec = inode->i_mtime.tv_nsec = 0; inode->i_ctime.tv_sec = inode->i_ctime.tv_nsec = 0; - unionfs_read_unlock(inode->i_sb); } /* -- 1.5.2.2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html