diff --git a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
index 09cdcd5..655e760 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/ialloc.c
@@ -118,12 +118,15 @@
 	if (bh_uptodate_or_lock(bh))
 		return bh;
 
+	spin_lock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
 	if (desc->bg_flags & cpu_to_le16(EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT)) {
 		ext4_init_inode_bitmap(sb, bh, block_group, desc);
 		set_buffer_uptodate(bh);
 		unlock_buffer(bh);
+		spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
 		return bh;
 	}
+	spin_unlock(sb_bgl_lock(EXT4_SB(sb), block_group));
 	if (bh_submit_read(bh) < 0) {
 		put_bh(bh);
 		ext4_error(sb, __func__,
@@ -735,7 +738,7 @@
 
 			/* When marking the block group with
 			 * ~EXT4_BG_INODE_UNINIT we don't want to depend
-			 * on the value of bg_itable_unsed even though
+			 * on the value of bg_itable_unused even though
 			 * mke2fs could have initialized the same for us.
 			 * Instead we calculated the value below
 			 */