There will cause a deadlock if invoke ext4_truncate with i_mutex locked in lustre. Since lustre has own lock to provide protect so we don't need this check at all. Index: linux-3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64/fs/ext4/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ linux-3.10.0-123.13.2.el7.x86_64/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3847,8 +3847,6 @@ void ext4_truncate(struct inode *inode) * or it completely new indode. In those cases we might not * have i_mutex locked because it's not necessary. */ - if (!(inode->i_state & (I_NEW|I_FREEING))) - WARN_ON(!mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); trace_ext4_truncate_enter(inode); if (!ext4_can_truncate(inode))