diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 006c85ca06ebe05ad8eb7438040bddd3af64968d..74d7c20fac88b3ba74d32a31f8537d7f15e8cc3d 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -1542,9 +1542,11 @@ void touch_atime(struct path *path)
 	if (timespec_equal(&inode->i_atime, &now))
 		return;
 
-	if (mnt_want_write(mnt))
+	if (!sb_start_write_trylock(inode->i_sb))
 		return;
 
+	if (__mnt_want_write(mnt))
+		goto skip_update;
 	/*
 	 * File systems can error out when updating inodes if they need to
 	 * allocate new space to modify an inode (such is the case for
@@ -1553,7 +1555,9 @@ void touch_atime(struct path *path)
 	 * so just ignore the return value.
 	 */
 	update_time(inode, &now, S_ATIME);
-	mnt_drop_write(mnt);
+	__mnt_drop_write(mnt);
+skip_update:
+	sb_end_write(inode->i_sb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(touch_atime);