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diff --git a/fs/jffs2/dir.c b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
index c63e7a9..2bba3d3 100644
--- a/fs/jffs2/dir.c
+++ b/fs/jffs2/dir.c
@@ -208,6 +208,13 @@ static int jffs2_create(struct inode *dir_i, struct dentry *dentry, int mode,
f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(inode);
dir_f = JFFS2_INODE_INFO(dir_i);
+ /* jffs2_do_create() will want to lock it, _after_ reserving
+ space and taking c-alloc_sem. If we keep it locked here,
+ lockdep gets unhappy (although it's a false positive;
+ nothing else will be looking at this inode yet so there's
+ no chance of AB-BA deadlock involving its f->sem). */
+ mutex_unlock(&f->sem);
+
ret = jffs2_do_create(c, dir_f, f, ri,
dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len);
if (ret)
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