1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
index 133e9b37c6c2..23670d81ec32 100644
--- a/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
+++ b/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_nl.c
@@ -661,11 +661,11 @@ drbd_set_role(struct drbd_device *const device, enum drbd_role new_role, int for
                         put_ldev(device);
                 }
         } else {
-                /* Called from drbd_adm_set_role only.
-                 * We are still holding the conf_update mutex. */
+                mutex_lock(&device->resource->conf_update);
                 nc = connection->net_conf;
                 if (nc)
                         nc->discard_my_data = 0; /* without copy; single bit op is atomic */
+                mutex_unlock(&device->resource->conf_update);
 
                 set_disk_ro(device->vdisk, false);
                 if (get_ldev(device)) {