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-3.10.0-229.1.2.fc21.x86_64/fs/ext4/inode.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.10.0-229.1.2.fc21.x86_64.orig/fs/ext4/inode.c +++ linux-3.10.0-229.1.2.fc21.x86_64/fs/ext4/inode.c @@ -3644,8 +3644,6 @@ 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)) Index: linux-3.10.0-229.1.2.fc21.x86_64/fs/ext4/namei.c =================================================================== --- linux-3.10.0-229.1.2.fc21.x86_64.orig/fs/ext4/namei.c +++ linux-3.10.0-229.1.2.fc21.x86_64/fs/ext4/namei.c @@ -3163,8 +3163,6 @@ int ext4_orphan_add(handle_t *handle, st if (!sbi->s_journal || is_bad_inode(inode)) return 0; - WARN_ON_ONCE(!(inode->i_state & (I_NEW | I_FREEING)) && - !mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); /* * Exit early if inode already is on orphan list. This is a big speedup * since we don't have to contend on the global s_orphan_lock. @@ -3245,8 +3243,6 @@ int ext4_orphan_del(handle_t *handle, st if (!sbi->s_journal && !(sbi->s_mount_state & EXT4_ORPHAN_FS)) return 0; - WARN_ON_ONCE(!(inode->i_state & (I_NEW | I_FREEING)) && - !mutex_is_locked(&inode->i_mutex)); /* Do this quick check before taking global s_orphan_lock. */ if (list_empty(&ei->i_orphan)) return 0;