if (!next || !btrfs_buffer_uptodate(next)) {
                        free_extent_buffer(next);
                        reada_walk_down(root, cur, path->slots[*level]);
-                       mutex_unlock(&root->fs_info->fs_mutex);
                        next = read_tree_block(root, bytenr, blocksize);
-                       mutex_lock(&root->fs_info->fs_mutex);
 
-                       /* we dropped the lock, check one more time */
+                       /* we used to drop the lock above, keep the
+                        * code to double check so that we won't forget
+                        * when we drop the lock again in the future
+                        */
                        ret = lookup_extent_ref(trans, root, bytenr,
                                                blocksize, &refs);
                        BUG_ON(ret);