diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9c36a76805..38b749e7b0 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -77,7 +77,6 @@ clippy.print_stdout = "warn"
 clippy.print_stderr = "warn"
 clippy.dbg_macro = "warn"
 clippy.implicit_clone = "warn"
-clippy.readonly_write_lock = "allow"
 rust.unknown_lints = "deny"
 rust.unexpected_cfgs = { level = "warn", check-cfg = ['cfg(tokio_unstable)'] }
 
diff --git a/src/log-store/src/raft_engine/backend.rs b/src/log-store/src/raft_engine/backend.rs
index 3d41e5298d..8d27994f8b 100644
--- a/src/log-store/src/raft_engine/backend.rs
+++ b/src/log-store/src/raft_engine/backend.rs
@@ -114,7 +114,13 @@ impl TxnService for RaftEngineBackend {
         } = txn.into();
 
         let mut succeeded = true;
+
+        // Here we are using the write lock to guard against parallel access inside "txn", and
+        // outside "get" or "put" etc. It doesn't serve the purpose of mutating some Rust data, so
+        // the variable is not "mut". Suppress the clippy warning because of this.
+        #[allow(clippy::readonly_write_lock)]
         let engine = self.engine.write().unwrap();
+
         for cmp in compare {
             let existing_value = engine_get(&engine, &cmp.key)?.map(|kv| kv.value);
             if !cmp.compare_value(existing_value.as_ref()) {