1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/balloc.c b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
index dd4237e5e9ec..731fbc0f1291 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/balloc.c
@@ -164,10 +164,11 @@ read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int block_group)
                             block_group, le32_to_cpu(desc->bg_block_bitmap));
                 return NULL;
         }
-        if (!ext3_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh)) {
-                brelse(bh);
-                return NULL;
-        }
+        ext3_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);
+        /*
+         * file system mounted not to panic on error, continue with corrupt
+         * bitmap
+         */
         return bh;
 }
 /*
@@ -1641,7 +1642,11 @@ allocated:
                             "Allocating block in system zone - "
                             "blocks from "E3FSBLK", length %lu",
                              ret_block, num);
-                goto out;
+                /*
+                 * claim_block() marked the blocks we allocated as in use. So we
+                 * may want to selectively mark some of the blocks as free.
+                 */
+                goto retry_alloc;
         }
 
         performed_allocation = 1;