1 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 433797934bd5..5d472e47c125 100644
--- a/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -2359,18 +2359,10 @@ static int __blk_rq_map_user(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq,
          */
         bio_get(bio);
 
-        /*
-         * for most (all? don't know of any) queues we could
-         * skip grabbing the queue lock here. only drivers with
-         * funky private ->back_merge_fn() function could be
-         * problematic.
-         */
-        spin_lock_irq(q->queue_lock);
         if (!rq->bio)
                 blk_rq_bio_prep(q, rq, bio);
         else if (!ll_back_merge_fn(q, rq, bio)) {
                 ret = -EINVAL;
-                spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
                 goto unmap_bio;
         } else {
                 rq->biotail->bi_next = bio;
@@ -2378,7 +2370,6 @@ static int __blk_rq_map_user(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq,
 
                 rq->data_len += bio->bi_size;
         }
-        spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
 
         return bio->bi_size;