diff --git a/block/blk-mq.c b/block/blk-mq.c
index 509f69fdfcf2..cf768d0c2950 100644
--- a/block/blk-mq.c
+++ b/block/blk-mq.c
@@ -2456,11 +2456,6 @@ static void blk_mq_map_swqueue(struct request_queue *q)
 	struct blk_mq_ctx *ctx;
 	struct blk_mq_tag_set *set = q->tag_set;
 
-	/*
-	 * Avoid others reading imcomplete hctx->cpumask through sysfs
-	 */
-	mutex_lock(&q->sysfs_lock);
-
 	queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
 		cpumask_clear(hctx->cpumask);
 		hctx->nr_ctx = 0;
@@ -2521,8 +2516,6 @@ static void blk_mq_map_swqueue(struct request_queue *q)
 					HCTX_TYPE_DEFAULT, i);
 	}
 
-	mutex_unlock(&q->sysfs_lock);
-
 	queue_for_each_hw_ctx(q, hctx, i) {
 		/*
 		 * If no software queues are mapped to this hardware queue,