diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
index 7642b67..720e9f9 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
 /* -*- mode: c; c-basic-offset: 8; -*-
  * vim: noexpandtab sw=8 ts=8 sts=0:
  *
@@ -6,21 +7,6 @@
  * Node local data allocation
  *
  * Copyright (C) 2002, 2004 Oracle.  All rights reserved.
- *
- * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
- * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
- * License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
- * version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
- *
- * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
- * General Public License for more details.
- *
- * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
- * License along with this program; if not, write to the
- * Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
- * Boston, MA 021110-1307, USA.
  */
 
 #include <linux/fs.h>
@@ -345,13 +331,18 @@
 	if (num_used
 	    || alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_used
 	    || alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_total
-	    || la->la_bm_off)
-		mlog(ML_ERROR, "Local alloc hasn't been recovered!\n"
+	    || la->la_bm_off) {
+		mlog(ML_ERROR, "inconsistent detected, clean journal with"
+		     " unrecovered local alloc, please run fsck.ocfs2!\n"
 		     "found = %u, set = %u, taken = %u, off = %u\n",
 		     num_used, le32_to_cpu(alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_used),
 		     le32_to_cpu(alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_total),
 		     OCFS2_LOCAL_ALLOC(alloc)->la_bm_off);
 
+		status = -EINVAL;
+		goto bail;
+	}
+
 	osb->local_alloc_bh = alloc_bh;
 	osb->local_alloc_state = OCFS2_LA_ENABLED;
 
@@ -386,7 +377,8 @@
 	struct ocfs2_dinode *alloc = NULL;
 
 	cancel_delayed_work(&osb->la_enable_wq);
-	flush_workqueue(osb->ocfs2_wq);
+	if (osb->ocfs2_wq)
+		flush_workqueue(osb->ocfs2_wq);
 
 	if (osb->local_alloc_state == OCFS2_LA_UNUSED)
 		goto out;
@@ -433,12 +425,11 @@
 	bh = osb->local_alloc_bh;
 	alloc = (struct ocfs2_dinode *) bh->b_data;
 
-	alloc_copy = kmalloc(bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
+	alloc_copy = kmemdup(alloc, bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!alloc_copy) {
 		status = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_commit;
 	}
-	memcpy(alloc_copy, alloc, bh->b_size);
 
 	status = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle, INODE_CACHE(local_alloc_inode),
 					 bh, OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_WRITE);
@@ -835,7 +826,7 @@
 				     u32 *numbits,
 				     struct ocfs2_alloc_reservation *resv)
 {
-	int numfound = 0, bitoff, left, startoff, lastzero;
+	int numfound = 0, bitoff, left, startoff;
 	int local_resv = 0;
 	struct ocfs2_alloc_reservation r;
 	void *bitmap = NULL;
@@ -873,7 +864,6 @@
 	bitmap = OCFS2_LOCAL_ALLOC(alloc)->la_bitmap;
 
 	numfound = bitoff = startoff = 0;
-	lastzero = -1;
 	left = le32_to_cpu(alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_total);
 	while ((bitoff = ocfs2_find_next_zero_bit(bitmap, left, startoff)) != -1) {
 		if (bitoff == left) {
@@ -1282,13 +1272,12 @@
 	 * local alloc shutdown won't try to double free main bitmap
 	 * bits. Make a copy so the sync function knows which bits to
 	 * free. */
-	alloc_copy = kmalloc(osb->local_alloc_bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
+	alloc_copy = kmemdup(alloc, osb->local_alloc_bh->b_size, GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!alloc_copy) {
 		status = -ENOMEM;
 		mlog_errno(status);
 		goto bail;
 	}
-	memcpy(alloc_copy, alloc, osb->local_alloc_bh->b_size);
 
 	status = ocfs2_journal_access_di(handle,
 					 INODE_CACHE(local_alloc_inode),