1 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext3/namei.c b/fs/ext3/namei.c
index f6ce3e79d315..34b6d9bfc48a 100644
--- a/fs/ext3/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext3/namei.c
@@ -1416,10 +1416,19 @@ static int make_indexed_dir(handle_t *handle, struct dentry *dentry,
         frame->at = entries;
         frame->bh = bh;
         bh = bh2;
+        /*
+         * Mark buffers dirty here so that if do_split() fails we write a
+         * consistent set of buffers to disk.
+         */
+        ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, frame->bh);
+        ext3_journal_dirty_metadata(handle, bh);
         de = do_split(handle,dir, &bh, frame, &hinfo, &retval);
-        dx_release (frames);
-        if (!(de))
+        if (!de) {
+                ext3_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
+                dx_release(frames);
                 return retval;
+        }
+        dx_release(frames);
 
         return add_dirent_to_buf(handle, dentry, inode, de, bh);
 }
@@ -2282,7 +2291,7 @@ out_stop:
         return err;
 err_drop_inode:
         unlock_new_inode(inode);
-        iput (inode);
+        iput(inode);
         return err;
 }