diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
index 478e587..89b81ee 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iget.c
@@ -69,15 +69,6 @@
 	ASSERT(!spin_is_locked(&ip->i_flags_lock));
 	ASSERT(completion_done(&ip->i_flush));
 
-	/*
-	 * initialise the VFS inode here to get failures
-	 * out of the way early.
-	 */
-	if (!inode_init_always(mp->m_super, VFS_I(ip))) {
-		kmem_zone_free(xfs_inode_zone, ip);
-		return NULL;
-	}
-
 	/* initialise the xfs inode */
 	ip->i_ino = ino;
 	ip->i_mount = mp;
@@ -113,6 +104,20 @@
 #ifdef XFS_DIR2_TRACE
 	ip->i_dir_trace = ktrace_alloc(XFS_DIR2_KTRACE_SIZE, KM_NOFS);
 #endif
+	/*
+	* Now initialise the VFS inode. We do this after the xfs_inode
+	* initialisation as internal failures will result in ->destroy_inode
+	* being called and that will pass down through the reclaim path and
+	* free the XFS inode. This path requires the XFS inode to already be
+	* initialised. Hence if this call fails, the xfs_inode has already
+	* been freed and we should not reference it at all in the error
+	* handling.
+	*/
+	if (!inode_init_always(mp->m_super, VFS_I(ip)))
+		return NULL;
+
+	/* prevent anyone from using this yet */
+	VFS_I(ip)->i_state = I_NEW|I_LOCK;
 
 	return ip;
 }