diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
index a7ab145e29014..faf36a96cd19d 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/aops.c
@@ -2207,10 +2207,7 @@ int ocfs2_write_begin_nolock(struct file *filp,
 		if (ret)
 			goto out_commit;
 	}
-	/*
-	 * We don't want this to fail in ocfs2_write_end(), so do it
-	 * here.
-	 */
+
 	ret = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(inode), wc->w_di_bh,
 				      OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
 	if (ret) {
@@ -2367,7 +2364,7 @@ int ocfs2_write_end_nolock(struct address_space *mapping,
 			   loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied,
 			   struct page *page, void *fsdata)
 {
-	int i;
+	int i, ret;
 	unsigned from, to, start = pos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1);
 	struct inode *inode = mapping->host;
 	struct ocfs2_super *osb = OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb);
@@ -2376,6 +2373,14 @@ int ocfs2_write_end_nolock(struct address_space *mapping,
 	handle_t *handle = wc->w_handle;
 	struct page *tmppage;
 
+	ret = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(inode), wc->w_di_bh,
+			OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
+	if (ret) {
+		copied = ret;
+		mlog_errno(ret);
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	if (OCFS2_I(inode)->ip_dyn_features & OCFS2_INLINE_DATA_FL) {
 		ocfs2_write_end_inline(inode, pos, len, &copied, di, wc);
 		goto out_write_size;
@@ -2431,6 +2436,7 @@ int ocfs2_write_end_nolock(struct address_space *mapping,
 	ocfs2_update_inode_fsync_trans(handle, inode, 1);
 	ocfs2_journal_dirty(handle, wc->w_di_bh);
 
+out:
 	/* unlock pages before dealloc since it needs acquiring j_trans_barrier
 	 * lock, or it will cause a deadlock since journal commit threads holds
 	 * this lock and will ask for the page lock when flushing the data.