This was intended to protect the inode during branch management, but that is now done through our superblock rwsem. Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <ezk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/unionfs/dentry.c | 13 ------------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c index 68c07ba..dc1aa39 100644 --- a/fs/unionfs/dentry.c +++ b/fs/unionfs/dentry.c @@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ static bool __unionfs_d_revalidate_one(struct dentry *dentry, int bindex, bstart, bend; int sbgen, dgen; int positive = 0; - int locked = 0; int interpose_flag; struct nameidata lowernd; /* TODO: be gentler to the stack */ @@ -87,16 +86,6 @@ static bool __unionfs_d_revalidate_one(struct dentry *dentry, interpose_flag = INTERPOSE_REVAL_NEG; if (positive) { interpose_flag = INTERPOSE_REVAL; - /* - * During BRM, the VFS could already hold a lock on - * a file being read, so don't lock it again - * (deadlock), but if you lock it in this function, - * then release it here too. - */ - if (!mutex_is_locked(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex)) { - mutex_lock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); - locked = 1; - } bstart = ibstart(dentry->d_inode); bend = ibend(dentry->d_inode); @@ -115,8 +104,6 @@ static bool __unionfs_d_revalidate_one(struct dentry *dentry, UNIONFS_I(dentry->d_inode)->lower_inodes = NULL; ibstart(dentry->d_inode) = -1; ibend(dentry->d_inode) = -1; - if (locked) - mutex_unlock(&dentry->d_inode->i_mutex); } result = unionfs_lookup_backend(dentry, &lowernd, -- 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