diff --git a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
index 7a1b345b6aa9d54fc89466ac825fa4056549124a..e2fd6c6fb1b326ed61e30d244f1da2d0b38fca32 100644
--- a/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
+++ b/drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/main.c
@@ -1173,7 +1173,7 @@ static void mlx4_ib_disassociate_ucontext(struct ib_ucontext *ibcontext)
 	/* need to protect from a race on closing the vma as part of
 	 * mlx4_ib_vma_close().
 	 */
-	down_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+	down_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
 	for (i = 0; i < HW_BAR_COUNT; i++) {
 		vma = context->hw_bar_info[i].vma;
 		if (!vma)
@@ -1191,7 +1191,7 @@ static void mlx4_ib_disassociate_ucontext(struct ib_ucontext *ibcontext)
 		context->hw_bar_info[i].vma->vm_ops = NULL;
 	}
 
-	up_read(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
+	up_write(&owning_mm->mmap_sem);
 	mmput(owning_mm);
 	put_task_struct(owning_process);
 }