diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index b80a1ab3f6c6..6fdbde5473a9 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 6eda3dd33f8a0ce58ee56a11351758643a698db4
+refs/heads/master: 6d98c3ccb52f692f1a60339dde7c700686a5568b
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
index 94b97fc6a88e..6d098b89d46e 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmmaster.c
@@ -3050,8 +3050,6 @@ int dlm_migrate_request_handler(struct o2net_msg *msg, u32 len, void *data,
 	/* check for pre-existing lock */
 	spin_lock(&dlm->spinlock);
 	res = __dlm_lookup_lockres(dlm, name, namelen, hash);
-	spin_lock(&dlm->master_lock);
-
 	if (res) {
 		spin_lock(&res->spinlock);
 		if (res->state & DLM_LOCK_RES_RECOVERING) {
@@ -3069,14 +3067,15 @@ int dlm_migrate_request_handler(struct o2net_msg *msg, u32 len, void *data,
 		spin_unlock(&res->spinlock);
 	}
 
+	spin_lock(&dlm->master_lock);
 	/* ignore status.  only nonzero status would BUG. */
 	ret = dlm_add_migration_mle(dlm, res, mle, &oldmle,
 				    name, namelen,
 				    migrate->new_master,
 				    migrate->master);
 
-unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&dlm->master_lock);
+unlock:
 	spin_unlock(&dlm->spinlock);
 
 	if (oldmle) {