1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/fs/eventpoll.c b/fs/eventpoll.c
index 8b5e2584c840..af903128891c 100644
--- a/fs/eventpoll.c
+++ b/fs/eventpoll.c
@@ -1907,10 +1907,6 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE4(epoll_ctl, int, epfd, int, op, int, fd,
                         }
                 }
         }
-        if (op == EPOLL_CTL_DEL && is_file_epoll(tf.file)) {
-                tep = tf.file->private_data;
-                mutex_lock_nested(&tep->mtx, 1);
-        }
 
         /*
          * Try to lookup the file inside our RB tree, Since we grabbed "mtx"