diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 35cca7298f9e..379318a121b8 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 541cecac534ea0df95fbc76b0a3091e91b101895
+refs/heads/master: fd782a4a99d2d3e818b9465c427b10f7f027d7da
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c b/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
index 1197462bb6ba..692a5fced76e 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c
@@ -1917,10 +1917,9 @@ static struct request *get_request(request_queue_t *q, int rw, struct bio *bio,
 	 * limit of requests, otherwise we could have thousands of requests
 	 * allocated with any setting of ->nr_requests
 	 */
-	if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2)) {
-		spin_unlock_irq(q->queue_lock);
+	if (rl->count[rw] >= (3 * q->nr_requests / 2))
 		goto out;
-	}
+
 	rl->count[rw]++;
 	rl->starved[rw] = 0;
 	if (rl->count[rw] >= queue_congestion_on_threshold(q))