Also the rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_unlock is unnessarry because rcu critical data structure is already protected in nfs_access_get_cached_rcu. Tested in x86_64 Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx> --- fs/nfs/dir.c | 9 +-------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c index 193d6fb..37b0c10 100644 --- a/fs/nfs/dir.c +++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c @@ -2732,14 +2732,7 @@ int nfs_permission(struct inode *inode, int mask) if (!NFS_PROTO(inode)->access) goto out_notsup; - /* Always try fast lookups first */ - rcu_read_lock(); - res = nfs_do_access(inode, cred, mask|MAY_NOT_BLOCK); - rcu_read_unlock(); - if (res == -ECHILD && !(mask & MAY_NOT_BLOCK)) { - /* Fast lookup failed, try the slow way */ - res = nfs_do_access(inode, cred, mask); - } + res = nfs_do_access(inode, cred, mask); out: if (!res && (mask & MAY_EXEC)) res = nfs_execute_ok(inode, mask); -- 1.7.1