diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 9fadcf43342da4137e0e4c1c6e7b1f791a6ca32b..955bf49a79455ef09ac8ff24940ba808d68f6554 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -640,8 +640,6 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle_t *handle, struct inode *inode,
 	 * fail EDQUOT for metdata, but we do account for it.
 	 */
 	if (!(*errp) && (flags & EXT4_MB_DELALLOC_RESERVED)) {
-		spin_lock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
-		spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
 		dquot_alloc_block_nofail(inode,
 				EXT4_C2B(EXT4_SB(inode->i_sb), ar.len));
 	}