diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index e0aa208c261f..200ab826baae 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 062d340384dcf77dfd8de0a082b5da571de3925a
+refs/heads/master: a9743fcdc0eb43d028b71267438076e1b0112ba0
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
index 8ff035eabfd8..4cbb18f26c5f 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ocfs2/namei.c
@@ -408,23 +408,28 @@ static int ocfs2_mknod(struct inode *dir,
 		}
 	}
 
-	status = ocfs2_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode,
-				 OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_blkno, parent_fe_bh,
-				 &lookup);
-	if (status < 0) {
+	/*
+	 * Do this before adding the entry to the directory. We add
+	 * also set d_op after success so that ->d_iput() will cleanup
+	 * the dentry lock even if ocfs2_add_entry() fails below.
+	 */
+	status = ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock(dentry, inode,
+					  OCFS2_I(dir)->ip_blkno);
+	if (status) {
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto leave;
 	}
+	dentry->d_op = &ocfs2_dentry_ops;
 
-	status = ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock(dentry, inode,
-					  OCFS2_I(dir)->ip_blkno);
-	if (status) {
+	status = ocfs2_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode,
+				 OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_blkno, parent_fe_bh,
+				 &lookup);
+	if (status < 0) {
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto leave;
 	}
 
 	insert_inode_hash(inode);
-	dentry->d_op = &ocfs2_dentry_ops;
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	status = 0;
 leave:
@@ -1777,22 +1782,27 @@ static int ocfs2_symlink(struct inode *dir,
 		}
 	}
 
-	status = ocfs2_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode,
-				 le64_to_cpu(fe->i_blkno), parent_fe_bh,
-				 &lookup);
-	if (status < 0) {
+	/*
+	 * Do this before adding the entry to the directory. We add
+	 * also set d_op after success so that ->d_iput() will cleanup
+	 * the dentry lock even if ocfs2_add_entry() fails below.
+	 */
+	status = ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock(dentry, inode, OCFS2_I(dir)->ip_blkno);
+	if (status) {
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto bail;
 	}
+	dentry->d_op = &ocfs2_dentry_ops;
 
-	status = ocfs2_dentry_attach_lock(dentry, inode, OCFS2_I(dir)->ip_blkno);
-	if (status) {
+	status = ocfs2_add_entry(handle, dentry, inode,
+				 le64_to_cpu(fe->i_blkno), parent_fe_bh,
+				 &lookup);
+	if (status < 0) {
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
 	insert_inode_hash(inode);
-	dentry->d_op = &ocfs2_dentry_ops;
 	d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 bail:
 	if (status < 0 && did_quota)