diff linux-2.6.10.orig/fs/ext2/ext2.h linux-2.6.10/fs/ext2/ext2.h
--- linux-2.6.10.orig/fs/ext2/ext2.h	2004-10-19 05:55:29.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.10/fs/ext2/ext2.h	2004-12-25 05:35:40.000000000 +0800
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@ extern unsigned long ext2_count_free (st
 /* inode.c */
 extern void ext2_read_inode (struct inode *);
 extern int ext2_write_inode (struct inode *, int);
+extern void ext2_put_inode (struct inode *);
 extern void ext2_delete_inode (struct inode *);
 extern int ext2_sync_inode (struct inode *);
 extern void ext2_discard_prealloc (struct inode *);
diff linux-2.6.10.orig/fs/ext2/inode.c linux-2.6.10/fs/ext2/inode.c
--- linux-2.6.10.orig/fs/ext2/inode.c	2004-10-19 05:53:11.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.10/fs/ext2/inode.c	2004-12-25 05:33:51.000000000 +0800
@@ -53,6 +53,19 @@ static inline int ext2_inode_is_fast_sym
 }
 
 /*
+ * Called at each iput().
+ *
+ * The inode may be "bad" if ext2_read_inode() saw an error from
+ * ext2_get_inode(), so we need to check that to avoid freeing random disk
+ * blocks.
+ */
+void ext2_put_inode(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (!is_bad_inode(inode))
+		ext2_discard_prealloc(inode);
+}
+
+/*
  * Called at the last iput() if i_nlink is zero.
  */
 void ext2_delete_inode (struct inode * inode)
diff linux-2.6.10.orig/fs/ext2/super.c linux-2.6.10/fs/ext2/super.c
--- linux-2.6.10.orig/fs/ext2/super.c	2004-10-19 05:54:38.000000000 +0800
+++ linux-2.6.10/fs/ext2/super.c	2004-12-25 05:35:01.000000000 +0800
@@ -197,17 +199,16 @@ static void ext2_clear_inode(struct inod
 		posix_acl_release(ei->i_default_acl);
 		ei->i_default_acl = EXT2_ACL_NOT_CACHED;
 	}
 #endif
-	if (!is_bad_inode(inode))
-		ext2_discard_prealloc(inode);
 }
 
 
 static struct super_operations ext2_sops = {
 	.alloc_inode	= ext2_alloc_inode,
 	.destroy_inode	= ext2_destroy_inode,
 	.read_inode	= ext2_read_inode,
 	.write_inode	= ext2_write_inode,
+	.put_inode	= ext2_put_inode,
 	.delete_inode	= ext2_delete_inode,
 	.put_super	= ext2_put_super,
 	.write_super	= ext2_write_super,