diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
index b401654011a2b64c4e55f87c7916e3badc07f68e..8a1e61545f4169de491eb00ee6c661ebf0054a30 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
@@ -1747,8 +1747,8 @@ int ocfs2_write_begin_nolock(struct address_space *mapping,
 	 * we know zeros will only be needed in the first and/or last cluster.
 	 */
 	if (clusters_to_alloc || extents_to_split ||
-	    wc->w_desc[0].c_needs_zero ||
-	    wc->w_desc[wc->w_clen - 1].c_needs_zero)
+	    (wc->w_clen && (wc->w_desc[0].c_needs_zero ||
+			    wc->w_desc[wc->w_clen - 1].c_needs_zero)))
 		cluster_of_pages = 1;
 	else
 		cluster_of_pages = 0;
diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
index 2f28b7de2c8d2cae30d052e54fc12fa7e91c740f..b4957c7d9fe2262a203a3efb3573eda9ed3d2638 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/dcache.c
@@ -85,6 +85,17 @@ static int ocfs2_dentry_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry,
 		goto bail;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If the last lookup failed to create dentry lock, let us
+	 * redo it.
+	 */
+	if (!dentry->d_fsdata) {
+		mlog(0, "Inode %llu doesn't have dentry lock, "
+		     "returning false\n",
+		     (unsigned long long)OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_blkno);
+		goto bail;
+	}
+
 	ret = 1;
 
 bail: