diff --git a/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c b/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
index 47b0b767f080ef78a2ca50da6d432525eb406360..dbfe9e891f015a87f3efb5b31349d8c1baca20c8 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mm/consistent.c
@@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct vm_region {
 	unsigned long		vm_start;
 	unsigned long		vm_end;
 	struct page		*vm_pages;
+	int			vm_active;
 };
 
 static struct vm_region consistent_head = {
@@ -104,6 +105,7 @@ vm_region_alloc(struct vm_region *head, size_t size, gfp_t gfp)
 	list_add_tail(&new->vm_list, &c->vm_list);
 	new->vm_start = addr;
 	new->vm_end = addr + size;
+	new->vm_active = 1;
 
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&consistent_lock, flags);
 	return new;
@@ -120,7 +122,7 @@ static struct vm_region *vm_region_find(struct vm_region *head, unsigned long ad
 	struct vm_region *c;
 	
 	list_for_each_entry(c, &head->vm_list, vm_list) {
-		if (c->vm_start == addr)
+		if (c->vm_active && c->vm_start == addr)
 			goto out;
 	}
 	c = NULL;
@@ -319,6 +321,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(dma_mmap_writecombine);
 
 /*
  * free a page as defined by the above mapping.
+ * Must not be called with IRQs disabled.
  */
 void dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, dma_addr_t handle)
 {
@@ -326,14 +329,18 @@ void dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, dma_addr
 	unsigned long flags, addr;
 	pte_t *ptep;
 
+	WARN_ON(irqs_disabled());
+
 	size = PAGE_ALIGN(size);
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&consistent_lock, flags);
-
 	c = vm_region_find(&consistent_head, (unsigned long)cpu_addr);
 	if (!c)
 		goto no_area;
 
+	c->vm_active = 0;
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&consistent_lock, flags);
+
 	if ((c->vm_end - c->vm_start) != size) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: freeing wrong coherent size (%ld != %d)\n",
 		       __func__, c->vm_end - c->vm_start, size);
@@ -372,8 +379,8 @@ void dma_free_coherent(struct device *dev, size_t size, void *cpu_addr, dma_addr
 
 	flush_tlb_kernel_range(c->vm_start, c->vm_end);
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&consistent_lock, flags);
 	list_del(&c->vm_list);
-
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&consistent_lock, flags);
 
 	kfree(c);