1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/fs/nfs/dir.c b/fs/nfs/dir.c
index 68e0688904ea..1bdc36bf1782 100644
--- a/fs/nfs/dir.c
+++ b/fs/nfs/dir.c
@@ -884,10 +884,8 @@ static void nfs_dentry_iput(struct dentry *dentry, struct inode *inode)
                 NFS_I(inode)->cache_validity |= NFS_INO_INVALID_DATA;
 
         if (dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_NFSFS_RENAMED) {
-                lock_kernel();
                 drop_nlink(inode);
                 nfs_complete_unlink(dentry, inode);
-                unlock_kernel();
         }
         iput(inode);
 }
@@ -1434,9 +1432,7 @@ static int nfs_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
                 spin_unlock(&dcache_lock);
                 /* Start asynchronous writeout of the inode */
                 write_inode_now(dentry->d_inode, 0);
-                lock_kernel();
                 error = nfs_sillyrename(dir, dentry);
-                unlock_kernel();
                 return error;
         }
         if (!d_unhashed(dentry)) {
@@ -1617,9 +1613,7 @@ static int nfs_rename(struct inode *old_dir, struct dentry *old_dentry,
                         goto out;
 
                 /* silly-rename the existing target ... */
-                lock_kernel();
                 err = nfs_sillyrename(new_dir, new_dentry);
-                unlock_kernel();
                 if (!err) {
                         new_dentry = rehash = dentry;
                         new_inode = NULL;