diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 82f9c2d3aa68..206f125bd540 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 7be2baaa0322c59ba888aa5260a8c130666acd41
+refs/heads/master: ba4439165f0f0d25b2fe065cf0c1ff8130b802eb
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index deba54f6cbed..c962d0690505 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -4476,23 +4476,26 @@ static int ext4_mb_release_context(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 			pa->pa_free -= ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len;
 			pa->pa_len -= ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len;
 			spin_unlock(&pa->pa_lock);
-			/*
-			 * We want to add the pa to the right bucket.
-			 * Remove it from the list and while adding
-			 * make sure the list to which we are adding
-			 * doesn't grow big.
-			 */
-			if (likely(pa->pa_free)) {
-				spin_lock(pa->pa_obj_lock);
-				list_del_rcu(&pa->pa_inode_list);
-				spin_unlock(pa->pa_obj_lock);
-				ext4_mb_add_n_trim(ac);
-			}
 		}
-		ext4_mb_put_pa(ac, ac->ac_sb, pa);
 	}
 	if (ac->alloc_semp)
 		up_read(ac->alloc_semp);
+	if (pa) {
+		/*
+		 * We want to add the pa to the right bucket.
+		 * Remove it from the list and while adding
+		 * make sure the list to which we are adding
+		 * doesn't grow big.  We need to release
+		 * alloc_semp before calling ext4_mb_add_n_trim()
+		 */
+		if (pa->pa_linear && likely(pa->pa_free)) {
+			spin_lock(pa->pa_obj_lock);
+			list_del_rcu(&pa->pa_inode_list);
+			spin_unlock(pa->pa_obj_lock);
+			ext4_mb_add_n_trim(ac);
+		}
+		ext4_mb_put_pa(ac, ac->ac_sb, pa);
+	}
 	if (ac->ac_bitmap_page)
 		page_cache_release(ac->ac_bitmap_page);
 	if (ac->ac_buddy_page)