diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 77cff89ec70c..d9b97366feef 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d03e1292c46721f60830c5d2e334966472002ed0
+refs/heads/master: 1415dd8705394399d59a3df1ab48d149e1e41e77
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext3/ialloc.c b/trunk/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
index 5c866e06e7ab..adae962ee957 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext3/ialloc.c
@@ -525,8 +525,12 @@ struct inode *ext3_new_inode(handle_t *handle, struct inode * dir,
 	if (IS_DIRSYNC(inode))
 		handle->h_sync = 1;
 	if (insert_inode_locked(inode) < 0) {
-		err = -EINVAL;
-		goto fail_drop;
+		/*
+		 * Likely a bitmap corruption causing inode to be allocated
+		 * twice.
+		 */
+		err = -EIO;
+		goto fail;
 	}
 	spin_lock(&sbi->s_next_gen_lock);
 	inode->i_generation = sbi->s_next_generation++;