diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 0b658d0230f02911142a6557c1daca92c6fe6775..aa59871885da6d5623891c0e2de0599dd2727cda 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -3762,9 +3762,7 @@ void close_ctree(struct btrfs_root *root)
 		 * block groups queued for removal, the deletion will be
 		 * skipped when we quit the cleaner thread.
 		 */
-		mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->cleaner_mutex);
 		btrfs_delete_unused_bgs(root->fs_info);
-		mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->cleaner_mutex);
 
 		ret = btrfs_commit_super(root);
 		if (ret)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index c389c13f0f383c4e086bb12045a47c4cfb343ef8..5a186d7180d34c90e8be25ecb22f1e0298b48bd6 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -1658,9 +1658,7 @@ static int btrfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 		 * groups on disk until we're mounted read-write again
 		 * unless we clean them up here.
 		 */
-		mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->cleaner_mutex);
 		btrfs_delete_unused_bgs(fs_info);
-		mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->cleaner_mutex);
 
 		btrfs_dev_replace_suspend_for_unmount(fs_info);
 		btrfs_scrub_cancel(fs_info);