1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/balloc.c b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
index 0213db4911a2..032c7ba1b13f 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
@@ -1010,7 +1010,7 @@ retry:
  * allocation within the reservation window.
  *
  * This will avoid keeping on searching the reservation list again and
- * again when someboday is looking for a free block (without
+ * again when somebody is looking for a free block (without
  * reservation), and there are lots of free blocks, but they are all
  * being reserved.
  *
@@ -1416,12 +1416,12 @@ unsigned long ext3_count_free_blocks(struct super_block *sb)
         unsigned long bitmap_count, x;
         struct buffer_head *bitmap_bh = NULL;
 
-        lock_super(sb);
         es = EXT3_SB(sb)->s_es;
         desc_count = 0;
         bitmap_count = 0;
         gdp = NULL;
 
+        smp_rmb();
         for (i = 0; i < ngroups; i++) {
                 gdp = ext3_get_group_desc(sb, i, NULL);
                 if (!gdp)
@@ -1440,7 +1440,6 @@ unsigned long ext3_count_free_blocks(struct super_block *sb)
         brelse(bitmap_bh);
         printk("ext3_count_free_blocks: stored = %u, computed = %lu, %lu\n",
                le32_to_cpu(es->s_free_blocks_count), desc_count, bitmap_count);
-        unlock_super(sb);
         return bitmap_count;
 #else
         desc_count = 0;