3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
index db69c1206f13..c6c684b44ea1 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
@@ -572,7 +572,6 @@ error_return:
         brelse(bitmap_bh);
         release_blocks(sb, freed);
         dquot_free_block_nodirty(inode, freed);
-        mark_inode_dirty(inode);
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/fs/ext2/inode.c b/fs/ext2/inode.c
index 069620b30d4d..e8af26dd6715 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/inode.c
@@ -423,6 +423,8 @@ static int ext2_alloc_blocks(struct inode *inode,
 failed_out:
         for (i = 0; i <index; i++)
                 ext2_free_blocks(inode, new_blocks[i], 1);
+        if (index)
+                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
         return ret;
 }
 
@@ -993,8 +995,8 @@ static inline void ext2_free_data(struct inode *inode, __le32 *p, __le32 *q)
                         else if (block_to_free == nr - count)
                                 count++;
                         else {
-                                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
                                 ext2_free_blocks (inode, block_to_free, count);
+                                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
                         free_this:
                                 block_to_free = nr;
                                 count = 1;
@@ -1002,8 +1004,8 @@ static inline void ext2_free_data(struct inode *inode, __le32 *p, __le32 *q)
                 }
         }
         if (count > 0) {
-                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
                 ext2_free_blocks (inode, block_to_free, count);
+                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
         }
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/ext2/xattr.c b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
index 0fa24e814d8a..25ff041058a7 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/xattr.c
@@ -674,6 +674,7 @@ ext2_xattr_set2(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *old_bh,
                         new_bh = sb_getblk(sb, block);
                         if (!new_bh) {
                                 ext2_free_blocks(inode, block, 1);
+                                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
                                 error = -EIO;
                                 goto cleanup;
                         }
@@ -729,6 +730,7 @@ ext2_xattr_set2(struct inode *inode, struct buffer_head *old_bh,
                                 mb_cache_entry_free(ce);
                         ea_bdebug(old_bh, "freeing");
                         ext2_free_blocks(inode, old_bh->b_blocknr, 1);
+                        mark_inode_dirty(inode);
                         /* We let our caller release old_bh, so we
                          * need to duplicate the buffer before. */
                         get_bh(old_bh);
@@ -789,6 +791,7 @@ ext2_xattr_delete_inode(struct inode *inode)
                 if (ce)
                         mb_cache_entry_free(ce);
                 ext2_free_blocks(inode, EXT2_I(inode)->i_file_acl, 1);
+                mark_inode_dirty(inode);
                 get_bh(bh);
                 bforget(bh);
                 unlock_buffer(bh);