diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
index ffa34b8..60e2f23 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/inode.c
@@ -2743,6 +2743,7 @@
 	int ret = 1;
 	struct reiserfs_journal *j = SB_JOURNAL(inode->i_sb);
 
+	lock_buffer(bh);
 	spin_lock(&j->j_dirty_buffers_lock);
 	if (!buffer_mapped(bh)) {
 		goto free_jh;
@@ -2758,7 +2759,7 @@
 		if (buffer_journaled(bh) || buffer_journal_dirty(bh)) {
 			ret = 0;
 		}
-	} else if (buffer_dirty(bh) || buffer_locked(bh)) {
+	} else  if (buffer_dirty(bh)) {
 		struct reiserfs_journal_list *jl;
 		struct reiserfs_jh *jh = bh->b_private;
 
@@ -2784,6 +2785,7 @@
 		reiserfs_free_jh(bh);
 	}
 	spin_unlock(&j->j_dirty_buffers_lock);
+	unlock_buffer(bh);
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
index 2d04efb..bc8fe96 100644
--- a/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
+++ b/fs/reiserfs/journal.c
@@ -877,6 +877,19 @@
 		if (!buffer_uptodate(bh)) {
 			ret = -EIO;
 		}
+		/* ugly interaction with invalidatepage here.
+		 * reiserfs_invalidate_page will pin any buffer that has a valid
+		 * journal head from an older transaction.  If someone else sets
+		 * our buffer dirty after we write it in the first loop, and
+		 * then someone truncates the page away, nobody will ever write
+		 * the buffer. We're safe if we write the page one last time
+		 * after freeing the journal header.
+		 */
+		if (buffer_dirty(bh) && unlikely(bh->b_page->mapping == NULL)) {
+			spin_unlock(lock);
+			ll_rw_block(WRITE, 1, &bh);
+			spin_lock(lock);
+		}
 		put_bh(bh);
 		cond_resched_lock(lock);
 	}