1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
index 25dec86..10bb02c 100644
--- a/fs/ext2/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext2/balloc.c
@@ -149,11 +149,12 @@ read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, unsigned int block_group)
 			    block_group, le32_to_cpu(desc->bg_block_bitmap));
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	if (!ext2_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh)) {
-		brelse(bh);
-		return NULL;
-	}
 
+	ext2_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);
+	/*
+	 * file system mounted not to panic on error, continue with corrupt
+	 * bitmap
+	 */
 	return bh;
 }
 
@@ -1380,7 +1381,12 @@ allocated:
 			    "Allocating block in system zone - "
 			    "blocks from "E2FSBLK", length %lu",
 			    ret_block, num);
-		goto out;
+		/*
+		 * ext2_try_to_allocate marked the blocks we allocated as in
+		 * use.  So we may want to selectively mark some of the blocks
+		 * as free
+		 */
+		goto retry_alloc;
 	}
 
 	performed_allocation = 1;