3.8.13.10 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me 
know.

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From: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>

This reverts commit f56c0e44628257f97063089eb865d5eb2dfdd642, which
was commit 57ab048532c0d975538cebd4456491b5c34248f4 upstream.

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1215513

f56c0e4 was identified as provoking the lockup bug noted above.

Cc: Jiang Liu <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Cc: Luis Henriques <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c | 2 --
 drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h | 5 ++---
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
index 62f8276..dd915ce 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.c
@@ -622,9 +622,7 @@ static void zram_slot_free_notify(struct block_device *bdev,
        struct zram *zram;
 
        zram = bdev->bd_disk->private_data;
-       down_write(&zram->lock);
        zram_free_page(zram, index);
-       up_write(&zram->lock);
        zram_stat64_inc(zram, &zram->stats.notify_free);
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
index 4265ab4..df2eec4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/zram/zram_drv.h
@@ -92,9 +92,8 @@ struct zram {
        void *compress_buffer;
        struct table *table;
        spinlock_t stat64_lock; /* protect 64-bit stats */
-       struct rw_semaphore lock; /* protect compression buffers, table,
-                                  * 32bit stat counters against concurrent
-                                  * notifications, reads and writes */
+       struct rw_semaphore lock; /* protect compression buffers and table
+                                  * against concurrent read and writes */
        struct request_queue *queue;
        struct gendisk *disk;
        int init_done;
-- 
1.8.1.2

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