diff --git a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
index cb97174e236603edde0a64a8d6f0ffbb07b572f1..0b394580d8603becf8c5c031745687f6ba9e9aeb 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/async-thread.c
@@ -563,8 +563,8 @@ static struct btrfs_worker_thread *find_worker(struct btrfs_workers *workers)
 	struct list_head *fallback;
 	int ret;
 
-again:
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&workers->lock, flags);
+again:
 	worker = next_worker(workers);
 
 	if (!worker) {
@@ -579,6 +579,7 @@ static struct btrfs_worker_thread *find_worker(struct btrfs_workers *workers)
 			spin_unlock_irqrestore(&workers->lock, flags);
 			/* we're below the limit, start another worker */
 			ret = __btrfs_start_workers(workers);
+			spin_lock_irqsave(&workers->lock, flags);
 			if (ret)
 				goto fallback;
 			goto again;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 0a6b928813a41f4ca3176cf2e0a228d166492bab..fd1a06df5bc637c5dad0b0b7e5ce1ce88d5c1616 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -4590,10 +4590,6 @@ static int btrfs_add_nondir(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	int err = btrfs_add_link(trans, dir, inode,
 				 dentry->d_name.name, dentry->d_name.len,
 				 backref, index);
-	if (!err) {
-		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
-		return 0;
-	}
 	if (err > 0)
 		err = -EEXIST;
 	return err;
@@ -4655,6 +4651,7 @@ static int btrfs_mknod(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 	else {
 		init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, rdev);
 		btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
+		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	}
 out_unlock:
 	nr = trans->blocks_used;
@@ -4722,6 +4719,7 @@ static int btrfs_create(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &btrfs_aops;
 		inode->i_mapping->backing_dev_info = &root->fs_info->bdi;
 		BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree.ops = &btrfs_extent_io_ops;
+		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	}
 out_unlock:
 	nr = trans->blocks_used;
@@ -4779,6 +4777,7 @@ static int btrfs_link(struct dentry *old_dentry, struct inode *dir,
 		struct dentry *parent = dentry->d_parent;
 		err = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
 		BUG_ON(err);
+		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 		btrfs_log_new_name(trans, inode, NULL, parent);
 	}
 
@@ -7245,6 +7244,8 @@ static int btrfs_symlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 		drop_inode = 1;
 
 out_unlock:
+	if (!err)
+		d_instantiate(dentry, inode);
 	nr = trans->blocks_used;
 	btrfs_end_transaction_throttle(trans, root);
 	if (drop_inode) {