diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 4a81b5c63bfb..69ac9fccc6f0 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: d4edac314e9ad0b21ba20ba8bc61b61f186f79e1
+refs/heads/master: b844167edc7fcafda9623955c05e4c1b3c32ebc7
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index ab2dad1dfb7e..19635c341994 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -3010,6 +3010,24 @@ static void ext4_mb_collect_stats(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
 		trace_ext4_mballoc_prealloc(ac);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Called on failure; free up any blocks from the inode PA for this
+ * context.  We don't need this for MB_GROUP_PA because we only change
+ * pa_free in ext4_mb_release_context(), but on failure, we've already
+ * zeroed out ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len, so group_pa->pa_free is not changed.
+ */
+static void ext4_discard_allocated_blocks(struct ext4_allocation_context *ac)
+{
+	struct ext4_prealloc_space *pa = ac->ac_pa;
+	int len;
+
+	if (pa && pa->pa_type == MB_INODE_PA) {
+		len = ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len;
+		pa->pa_free += len;
+	}
+
+}
+
 /*
  * use blocks preallocated to inode
  */
@@ -4295,6 +4313,7 @@ ext4_fsblk_t ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle_t *handle,
 			ac->ac_status = AC_STATUS_CONTINUE;
 			goto repeat;
 		} else if (*errp) {
+			ext4_discard_allocated_blocks(ac);
 			ac->ac_b_ex.fe_len = 0;
 			ar->len = 0;
 			ext4_mb_show_ac(ac);