diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 36c42a9aa6b8..4f0c55564a7b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 718ea8361b15aec5f4cb559d63ba34bc5a58d8f9
+refs/heads/master: 0477d24e2a87a9077b62298b01b031929f5cf2a2
diff --git a/trunk/fs/jffs2/readinode.c b/trunk/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
index 5663e8c7a959..12e83f67eee4 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/jffs2/readinode.c
@@ -229,9 +229,16 @@ static int jffs2_add_tn_to_tree(struct jffs2_sb_info *c,
 	   check anyway. */
 	if (!tn->fn->size) {
 		if (rii->mdata_tn) {
-			/* We had a candidate mdata node already */
-			dbg_readinode("kill old mdata with ver %d\n", rii->mdata_tn->version);
-			jffs2_kill_tn(c, rii->mdata_tn);
+			if (rii->mdata_tn->version < tn->version) {
+				/* We had a candidate mdata node already */
+				dbg_readinode("kill old mdata with ver %d\n", rii->mdata_tn->version);
+				jffs2_kill_tn(c, rii->mdata_tn);
+			} else {
+				dbg_readinode("kill new mdata with ver %d (older than existing %d\n",
+					      tn->version, rii->mdata_tn->version);
+				jffs2_kill_tn(c, tn);
+				return 0;
+			}
 		}
 		rii->mdata_tn = tn;
 		dbg_readinode("keep new mdata with ver %d\n", tn->version);