diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 9f5e1cfb0209..34279665fd69 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -1586,7 +1586,6 @@ struct btrfs_fs_info {
 	atomic_t scrubs_paused;
 	atomic_t scrub_cancel_req;
 	wait_queue_head_t scrub_pause_wait;
-	struct rw_semaphore scrub_super_lock;
 	int scrub_workers_refcnt;
 	struct btrfs_workers scrub_workers;
 	struct btrfs_workers scrub_wr_completion_workers;
@@ -3950,9 +3949,7 @@ int btrfs_scrub_dev(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 devid, u64 start,
 		    u64 end, struct btrfs_scrub_progress *progress,
 		    int readonly, int is_dev_replace);
 void btrfs_scrub_pause(struct btrfs_root *root);
-void btrfs_scrub_pause_super(struct btrfs_root *root);
 void btrfs_scrub_continue(struct btrfs_root *root);
-void btrfs_scrub_continue_super(struct btrfs_root *root);
 int btrfs_scrub_cancel(struct btrfs_fs_info *info);
 int btrfs_scrub_cancel_dev(struct btrfs_fs_info *info,
 			   struct btrfs_device *dev);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 62c4aba221bb..a3ad3a27944d 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2250,7 +2250,6 @@ int open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->scrubs_paused, 0);
 	atomic_set(&fs_info->scrub_cancel_req, 0);
 	init_waitqueue_head(&fs_info->scrub_pause_wait);
-	init_rwsem(&fs_info->scrub_super_lock);
 	fs_info->scrub_workers_refcnt = 0;
 #ifdef CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY
 	fs_info->check_integrity_print_mask = 0;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/scrub.c b/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
index f21e2df89bc2..12009b4279ad 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/scrub.c
@@ -2932,13 +2932,15 @@ int btrfs_scrub_dev(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, u64 devid, u64 start,
 
 	atomic_inc(&fs_info->scrubs_running);
 	mutex_unlock(&fs_info->scrub_lock);
-	mutex_unlock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
 
 	if (!is_dev_replace) {
-		down_read(&fs_info->scrub_super_lock);
+		/*
+		 * by holding device list mutex, we can
+		 * kick off writing super in log tree sync.
+		 */
 		ret = scrub_supers(sctx, dev);
-		up_read(&fs_info->scrub_super_lock);
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&fs_info->fs_devices->device_list_mutex);
 
 	if (!ret)
 		ret = scrub_enumerate_chunks(sctx, dev, start, end,
@@ -2988,16 +2990,6 @@ void btrfs_scrub_continue(struct btrfs_root *root)
 	wake_up(&fs_info->scrub_pause_wait);
 }
 
-void btrfs_scrub_pause_super(struct btrfs_root *root)
-{
-	down_write(&root->fs_info->scrub_super_lock);
-}
-
-void btrfs_scrub_continue_super(struct btrfs_root *root)
-{
-	up_write(&root->fs_info->scrub_super_lock);
-}
-
 int btrfs_scrub_cancel(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 {
 	mutex_lock(&fs_info->scrub_lock);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index f98002ed32b1..257cbae8c948 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -2586,9 +2586,7 @@ int btrfs_sync_log(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	 * the running transaction open, so a full commit can't hop
 	 * in and cause problems either.
 	 */
-	btrfs_scrub_pause_super(root);
 	ret = write_ctree_super(trans, root->fs_info->tree_root, 1);
-	btrfs_scrub_continue_super(root);
 	if (ret) {
 		btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, root, ret);
 		goto out_wake_log_root;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
index b72f540c8b29..49e0ff01143f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/volumes.h
@@ -132,7 +132,9 @@ struct btrfs_fs_devices {
 
 	/* all of the devices in the FS, protected by a mutex
 	 * so we can safely walk it to write out the supers without
-	 * worrying about add/remove by the multi-device code
+	 * worrying about add/remove by the multi-device code.
+	 * Scrubbing super can kick off supers writing by holding
+	 * this mutex lock.
 	 */
 	struct mutex device_list_mutex;
 	struct list_head devices;