diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6e49ad76ce9d..f55568d816fc 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: cb0586bd4c77c531fe0be4ae860ec642450eeda5
+refs/heads/master: cfc069d3fa24d7c6357e3b731e97f94db495bf0c
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c
index 3722e3850a1f..8b50c1ad7a69 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c
@@ -1083,6 +1083,9 @@ static int o2hb_thread(void *data)
 
 	set_user_nice(current, -20);
 
+	/* Pin node */
+	o2nm_depend_this_node();
+
 	while (!kthread_should_stop() && !reg->hr_unclean_stop) {
 		/* We track the time spent inside
 		 * o2hb_do_disk_heartbeat so that we avoid more than
@@ -1132,6 +1135,9 @@ static int o2hb_thread(void *data)
 		mlog_errno(ret);
 	}
 
+	/* Unpin node */
+	o2nm_undepend_this_node();
+
 	mlog(ML_HEARTBEAT|ML_KTHREAD, "hb thread exiting\n");
 
 	return 0;