diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6204006fc946..f41c30692b0f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: da01ad05528bf6f6bcb286329b14225a71713325
+refs/heads/master: 41b8c8a101ba77f59d9a4b3cac6c846cb8a34840
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
index d7a51691e7d3..376283e98c16 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
@@ -1512,15 +1512,12 @@ int dlm_master_request_handler(struct o2net_msg *msg, u32 len, void *data)
 				mlog_errno(-ENOMEM);
 				goto send_response;
 			}
-			spin_lock(&dlm->spinlock);
-			dlm_init_mle(mle, DLM_MLE_BLOCK, dlm, NULL,
-					 name, namelen);
-			spin_unlock(&dlm->spinlock);
 			goto way_up_top;
 		}
 
 		// mlog(0, "this is second time thru, already allocated, "
 		// "add the block.\n");
+		dlm_init_mle(mle, DLM_MLE_BLOCK, dlm, NULL, name, namelen);
 		set_bit(request->node_idx, mle->maybe_map);
 		list_add(&mle->list, &dlm->master_list);
 		response = DLM_MASTER_RESP_NO;