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diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index d23d6d7a45a6..04e3c42a085f 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -2801,11 +2801,27 @@ int journal_init(struct super_block *sb, const char *j_dev_name,
goto free_and_return;
}
+ /*
+ * We need to unlock here to avoid creating the following
+ * dependency:
+ * reiserfs_lock -> sysfs_mutex
+ * Because the reiserfs mmap path creates the following dependency:
+ * mm->mmap -> reiserfs_lock, hence we have
+ * mm->mmap -> reiserfs_lock ->sysfs_mutex
+ * This would ends up in a circular dependency with sysfs readdir path
+ * which does sysfs_mutex -> mm->mmap_sem
+ * This is fine because the reiserfs lock is useless in mount path,
+ * at least until we call journal_begin. We keep it for paranoid
+ * reasons.
+ */
+ reiserfs_write_unlock(sb);
if (journal_init_dev(sb, journal, j_dev_name) != 0) {
+ reiserfs_write_lock(sb);
reiserfs_warning(sb, "sh-462",
"unable to initialize jornal device");
goto free_and_return;
}
+ reiserfs_write_lock(sb);
rs = SB_DISK_SUPER_BLOCK(sb);