HDFS-3861. Deadlock in DFSClient (Kihwal Lee via daryn)

git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/hadoop/common/trunk@1379093 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/CHANGES.txt

@@ -1574,6 +1574,8 @@ Release 0.23.3 - UNRELEASED
     HDFS-3718. Datanode won't shutdown because of runaway DataBlockScanner
     thread (Kihwal Lee via daryn)
 
+    HDFS-3861. Deadlock in DFSClient (Kihwal Lee via daryn)
+
 Release 0.23.2 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES

hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/hdfs/DFSClient.java

@@ -533,7 +533,7 @@ public class DFSClient implements java.io.Closeable {
    *  until the first output stream is created. The same instance will
    *  be returned until all output streams are closed.
    */
-  public synchronized LeaseRenewer getLeaseRenewer() throws IOException {
+  public LeaseRenewer getLeaseRenewer() throws IOException {
       return LeaseRenewer.getInstance(authority, ugi, this);
   }