linux-kernel - [PATCH 3/6] reiserfs: Remove i_mutex use from reiserfs_quota

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Message-Id: <1335387467-4928-4-git-send-email-jack@suse.cz>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:57:44 +0200
From:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
To:	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, bfields@...ldses.org,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
Subject: [PATCH 3/6] reiserfs: Remove i_mutex use from reiserfs_quota_write()

We don't need i_mutex in reiserfs_quota_write() because writes to quota file
are serialized by dqio_mutex anyway. Changes to quota files outside of quota
code are forbidded and enforced by NOATIME and IMMUTABLE bits.

Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>
---
 fs/reiserfs/super.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/super.c b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
index 8b7616e..c07b7d7 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/super.c
@@ -2270,7 +2270,6 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_quota_write(struct super_block *sb, int type,
 			(unsigned long long)off, (unsigned long long)len);
 		return -EIO;
 	}
-	mutex_lock_nested(&inode->i_mutex, I_MUTEX_QUOTA);
 	while (towrite > 0) {
 		tocopy = sb->s_blocksize - offset < towrite ?
 		    sb->s_blocksize - offset : towrite;
@@ -2302,16 +2301,13 @@ static ssize_t reiserfs_quota_write(struct super_block *sb, int type,
 		blk++;
 	}
 out:
-	if (len == towrite) {
-		mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
+	if (len == towrite)
 		return err;
-	}
 	if (inode->i_size < off + len - towrite)
 		i_size_write(inode, off + len - towrite);
 	inode->i_version++;
 	inode->i_mtime = inode->i_ctime = CURRENT_TIME;
 	mark_inode_dirty(inode);
-	mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex);
 	return len - towrite;
 }
 
-- 
1.7.1

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