diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 67456b25effb..b06f46e4e4cb 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 60836eb63b941f407dc2a609f3f0f34fd74ef6c3
+refs/heads/master: d707d31c972b657dfc2efefd0b99cc4e14223dab
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c
index 10bb02c3f25c..6dac7ba2d22d 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c
@@ -1295,6 +1295,7 @@ ext2_fsblk_t ext2_new_blocks(struct inode *inode, ext2_fsblk_t goal,
 	 * turn off reservation for this allocation
 	 */
 	if (my_rsv && (free_blocks < windowsz)
+		&& (free_blocks > 0)
 		&& (rsv_is_empty(&my_rsv->rsv_window)))
 		my_rsv = NULL;
 
@@ -1332,7 +1333,7 @@ ext2_fsblk_t ext2_new_blocks(struct inode *inode, ext2_fsblk_t goal,
 		 * free blocks is less than half of the reservation
 		 * window size.
 		 */
-		if (free_blocks <= (windowsz/2))
+		if (my_rsv && (free_blocks <= (windowsz/2)))
 			continue;
 
 		brelse(bitmap_bh);