diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glock.c b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
index 7602d0e2492c..5afaf92057c0 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glock.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glock.c
@@ -604,9 +604,22 @@ __acquires(&gl->gl_lockref.lock)
 	spin_unlock(&gl->gl_lockref.lock);
 	if (glops->go_sync)
 		glops->go_sync(gl);
-	if (test_bit(GLF_INVALIDATE_IN_PROGRESS, &gl->gl_flags))
+	if (test_bit(GLF_INVALIDATE_IN_PROGRESS, &gl->gl_flags)) {
+		/*
+		 * The call to go_sync should have cleared out the ail list.
+		 * If there are still items, we have a problem. We ought to
+		 * withdraw, but we can't because the withdraw code also uses
+		 * glocks. Warn about the error, dump the glock, then fall
+		 * through and wait for logd to do the withdraw for us.
+		 */
+		if ((atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count) != 0) &&
+		    (!cmpxchg(&sdp->sd_log_error, 0, -EIO))) {
+			gfs2_assert_warn(sdp, !atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count));
+			gfs2_dump_glock(NULL, gl, true);
+		}
 		glops->go_inval(gl, target == LM_ST_DEFERRED ? 0 : DIO_METADATA);
-	clear_bit(GLF_INVALIDATE_IN_PROGRESS, &gl->gl_flags);
+		clear_bit(GLF_INVALIDATE_IN_PROGRESS, &gl->gl_flags);
+	}
 
 	gfs2_glock_hold(gl);
 	if (sdp->sd_lockstruct.ls_ops->lm_lock)	{
diff --git a/fs/gfs2/glops.c b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
index 7cfacbe35e59..b58924482d9a 100644
--- a/fs/gfs2/glops.c
+++ b/fs/gfs2/glops.c
@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ static void rgrp_go_inval(struct gfs2_glock *gl, int flags)
 		gfs2_rgrp_brelse(rgd);
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(flags & DIO_METADATA));
-	gfs2_assert_withdraw(sdp, !atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count));
 	truncate_inode_pages_range(mapping, gl->gl_vm.start, gl->gl_vm.end);
 
 	if (rgd)
@@ -288,8 +287,6 @@ static void inode_go_inval(struct gfs2_glock *gl, int flags)
 {
 	struct gfs2_inode *ip = gfs2_glock2inode(gl);
 
-	gfs2_assert_withdraw(gl->gl_name.ln_sbd, !atomic_read(&gl->gl_ail_count));
-
 	if (flags & DIO_METADATA) {
 		struct address_space *mapping = gfs2_glock2aspace(gl);
 		truncate_inode_pages(mapping, 0);