block_group, le32_to_cpu(desc->bg_block_bitmap));
                return NULL;
        }
-       if (!ext3_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh)) {
-               brelse(bh);
-               return NULL;
-       }
+       ext3_valid_block_bitmap(sb, desc, block_group, bh);
+       /*
+        * file system mounted not to panic on error, continue with corrupt
+        * bitmap
+        */
        return bh;
 }
 /*
                            "Allocating block in system zone - "
                            "blocks from "E3FSBLK", length %lu",
                             ret_block, num);
-               goto out;
+               /*
+                * claim_block() marked the blocks we allocated as in use. So we
+                * may want to selectively mark some of the blocks as free.
+                */
+               goto retry_alloc;
        }
 
        performed_allocation = 1;