commit 67329e2cf64aec77eebb4ff1d32dd268fb96dd7b
Author: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   Tue Dec 25 17:08:50 2007 -0500

    Unionfs: remove unnecessary lock when deleting whiteouts
    
    Lockdep complained, because we eventually call vfs_unlink which'd grab the
    necessary locks.
    
    Signed-off-by: Erez Zadok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

diff --git a/fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c b/fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c
index 5da1c5a..f8cb90f 100644
--- a/fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c
+++ b/fs/unionfs/dirhelper.c
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@ int delete_whiteouts(struct dentry *dentry, int bindex,
        lower_dir = lower_dir_dentry->d_inode;
        BUG_ON(!S_ISDIR(lower_dir->i_mode));
 
-       mutex_lock(&lower_dir->i_mutex);
        if (!permission(lower_dir, MAY_WRITE | MAY_EXEC, NULL)) {
                err = do_delete_whiteouts(dentry, bindex, namelist);
        } else {
@@ -120,7 +119,6 @@ int delete_whiteouts(struct dentry *dentry, int bindex,
                run_sioq(__delete_whiteouts, &args);
                err = args.err;
        }
-       mutex_unlock(&lower_dir->i_mutex);
 
 out:
        return err;
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