diff --git a/fs/lockd/svclock.c b/fs/lockd/svclock.c
index fb1a2bedbe9789a8fcca5618b4637d70b25fb8ab..8d80c990dffdfc34b9f0168c39d208b99018c01e 100644
--- a/fs/lockd/svclock.c
+++ b/fs/lockd/svclock.c
@@ -289,7 +289,6 @@ static void nlmsvc_free_block(struct kref *kref)
 	dprintk("lockd: freeing block %p...\n", block);
 
 	/* Remove block from file's list of blocks */
-	mutex_lock(&file->f_mutex);
 	list_del_init(&block->b_flist);
 	mutex_unlock(&file->f_mutex);
 
@@ -303,7 +302,7 @@ static void nlmsvc_free_block(struct kref *kref)
 static void nlmsvc_release_block(struct nlm_block *block)
 {
 	if (block != NULL)
-		kref_put(&block->b_count, nlmsvc_free_block);
+		kref_put_mutex(&block->b_count, nlmsvc_free_block, &block->b_file->f_mutex);
 }
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index 4d31f73e2561d4d0e19d85becc0223dda27b4710..7bdf7907413f0ea5f3c9e9c2de6b4002381e2064 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1886,8 +1886,14 @@ static int do_add_mount(struct mount *newmnt, struct path *path, int mnt_flags)
 		return err;
 
 	err = -EINVAL;
-	if (!(mnt_flags & MNT_SHRINKABLE) && !check_mnt(real_mount(path->mnt)))
-		goto unlock;
+	if (unlikely(!check_mnt(real_mount(path->mnt)))) {
+		/* that's acceptable only for automounts done in private ns */
+		if (!(mnt_flags & MNT_SHRINKABLE))
+			goto unlock;
+		/* ... and for those we'd better have mountpoint still alive */
+		if (!real_mount(path->mnt)->mnt_ns)
+			goto unlock;
+	}
 
 	/* Refuse the same filesystem on the same mount point */
 	err = -EBUSY;