The only non-constant value read under m_sb_lock in xfs_fs_statfs is sb_dblocks, and it could become stale right after dropping the lock anyway. Remove the thus pointless lock section. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Reviewed-by: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> --- fs/xfs/xfs_super.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c index 7c3f996cd39e..20cc00b992a6 100644 --- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c +++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c @@ -850,11 +850,13 @@ xfs_fs_statfs( ifree = percpu_counter_sum(&mp->m_ifree); fdblocks = percpu_counter_sum(&mp->m_fdblocks); - spin_lock(&mp->m_sb_lock); statp->f_bsize = sbp->sb_blocksize; lsize = sbp->sb_logstart ? sbp->sb_logblocks : 0; + /* + * sb_dblocks can change during growfs, but nothing cares about reporting + * the old or new value during growfs. + */ statp->f_blocks = sbp->sb_dblocks - lsize; - spin_unlock(&mp->m_sb_lock); /* make sure statp->f_bfree does not underflow */ statp->f_bfree = max_t(int64_t, 0, -- 2.45.2