diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 5f6390895855..7c6b266d476a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 55138e0bc29c0751e2152df9ad35deea542f29b3
+refs/heads/master: 9f0ccfd8e07d61b413e6536ffa02fbf60d2e20d8
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 20e2d704dc2e..219067ce09d9 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -1854,11 +1854,11 @@ static int ext4_da_reserve_space(struct inode *inode, int nrblocks)
 
 	if (ext4_claim_free_blocks(sbi, total)) {
 		spin_unlock(&EXT4_I(inode)->i_block_reservation_lock);
+		vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total);
 		if (ext4_should_retry_alloc(inode->i_sb, &retries)) {
 			yield();
 			goto repeat;
 		}
-		vfs_dq_release_reservation_block(inode, total);
 		return -ENOSPC;
 	}
 	EXT4_I(inode)->i_reserved_data_blocks += nrblocks;