1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/balloc.c b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
index a177122a1b25..4a32511f4ded 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
@@ -1584,6 +1584,12 @@ retry_alloc:
                         goto io_error;
                 free_blocks = le16_to_cpu(gdp->bg_free_blocks_count);
                 /*
+                 * skip this group (and avoid loading bitmap) if there
+                 * are no free blocks
+                 */
+                if (!free_blocks)
+                        continue;
+                /*
                  * skip this group if the number of
                  * free blocks is less than half of the reservation
                  * window size.