diff --git a/fs/ufs/balloc.c b/fs/ufs/balloc.c
index b01804baa120f630c1fe2480a970086e96e58cde..b82381475779b59ecdd52685eafc05db391d6bb2 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/balloc.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/balloc.c
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ static void ufs_change_blocknr(struct inode *inode, unsigned int baseblk,
 
 		if (likely(cur_index != index)) {
 			page = ufs_get_locked_page(mapping, index);
-			if (IS_ERR(page))
+			if (!page || IS_ERR(page)) /* it was truncated or EIO */
 				continue;
 		} else
 			page = locked_page;
diff --git a/fs/ufs/util.c b/fs/ufs/util.c
index 005d6815adf56131564b9893ac1921748021702b..22f820a9b15c782dace5e86fc2a6bf9d9ad74ab0 100644
--- a/fs/ufs/util.c
+++ b/fs/ufs/util.c
@@ -251,7 +251,6 @@ struct page *ufs_get_locked_page(struct address_space *mapping,
 {
 	struct page *page;
 
-try_again:
 	page = find_lock_page(mapping, index);
 	if (!page) {
 		page = read_cache_page(mapping, index,
@@ -271,7 +270,8 @@ struct page *ufs_get_locked_page(struct address_space *mapping,
 			/* Truncate got there first */
 			unlock_page(page);
 			page_cache_release(page);
-			goto try_again;
+			page = NULL;
+			goto out;
 		}
 
 		if (!PageUptodate(page) || PageError(page)) {