diff --git a/fs/ext4/balloc.c b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
index 59566c082f1b454aeabb862b5a52d7ee2ecc3f2c..bd2ece22882755b02599563a1bee89c5b10d2b87 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/balloc.c
@@ -319,9 +319,11 @@ ext4_read_block_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
 			    block_group, bitmap_blk);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	if (bh_uptodate_or_lock(bh))
+	if (buffer_uptodate(bh) &&
+	    !(desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)))
 		return bh;
 
+	lock_buffer(bh);
 	spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
 	if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
 		ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 1343bf18825b0766744e5c3cdf0ba97ffc365e4f..fe34d74cfb19f89bd8435690511b54529982d984 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -115,9 +115,11 @@ ext4_read_inode_bitmap(struct super_block *sb, ext4_group_t block_group)
 			    block_group, bitmap_blk);
 		return NULL;
 	}
-	if (bh_uptodate_or_lock(bh))
+	if (buffer_uptodate(bh) &&
+	    !(desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)))
 		return bh;
 
+	lock_buffer(bh);
 	spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
 	if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
 		ext4_init_inode_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
index 335faee0c0f5ea898b896e584fa16e01859de68f..b580714f0d859c107e94a3f6c61286141fb0cdab 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c
@@ -782,9 +782,11 @@ static int ext4_mb_init_cache(struct page *page, char *incore)
 		if (bh[i] == NULL)
 			goto out;
 
-		if (bh_uptodate_or_lock(bh[i]))
+		if (buffer_uptodate(bh[i]) &&
+		    !(desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)))
 			continue;
 
+		lock_buffer(bh[i]);
 		spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), first_group + i));
 		if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_BLOCK_UNINIT)) {
 			ext4_init_block_bitmap(sb, bh[i],