diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index f2c48f9d802a..30a6b13e8357 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 2984ff38ccf6cbc02a7a996a36c7d6f69f3c6146
+refs/heads/master: 5eb46851de3904cd1be9192fdacb8d34deadc1fc
diff --git a/trunk/block/cfq-iosched.c b/trunk/block/cfq-iosched.c
index 3beed83437a3..4c12869fcf77 100644
--- a/trunk/block/cfq-iosched.c
+++ b/trunk/block/cfq-iosched.c
@@ -3184,7 +3184,7 @@ static int cfq_cic_link(struct cfq_data *cfqd, struct io_context *ioc,
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (ret)
+	if (ret && ret != -EEXIST)
 		printk(KERN_ERR "cfq: cic link failed!\n");
 
 	return ret;
@@ -3200,6 +3200,7 @@ cfq_get_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 {
 	struct io_context *ioc = NULL;
 	struct cfq_io_context *cic;
+	int ret;
 
 	might_sleep_if(gfp_mask & __GFP_WAIT);
 
@@ -3207,6 +3208,7 @@ cfq_get_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 	if (!ioc)
 		return NULL;
 
+retry:
 	cic = cfq_cic_lookup(cfqd, ioc);
 	if (cic)
 		goto out;
@@ -3215,7 +3217,12 @@ cfq_get_io_context(struct cfq_data *cfqd, gfp_t gfp_mask)
 	if (cic == NULL)
 		goto err;
 
-	if (cfq_cic_link(cfqd, ioc, cic, gfp_mask))
+	ret = cfq_cic_link(cfqd, ioc, cic, gfp_mask);
+	if (ret == -EEXIST) {
+		/* someone has linked cic to ioc already */
+		cfq_cic_free(cic);
+		goto retry;
+	} else if (ret)
 		goto err_free;
 
 out: