diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
index 7db3ebda5a4c9afdbd1c4a7baffd039ad220933e..403c090aca39954d378809b55b0585f74085422c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/squashfs.txt
@@ -93,8 +93,8 @@ byte alignment:
 
 Compressed data blocks are written to the filesystem as files are read from
 the source directory, and checked for duplicates.  Once all file data has been
-written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export and uid/gid lookup
-tables are written.
+written the completed inode, directory, fragment, export, uid/gid lookup and
+xattr tables are written.
 
 3.1 Compression options
 -----------------------
@@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ in each metadata block.  Directories are sorted in alphabetical order,
 and at lookup the index is scanned linearly looking for the first filename
 alphabetically larger than the filename being looked up.  At this point the
 location of the metadata block the filename is in has been found.
-The general idea of the index is ensure only one metadata block needs to be
+The general idea of the index is to ensure only one metadata block needs to be
 decompressed to do a lookup irrespective of the length of the directory.
 This scheme has the advantage that it doesn't require extra memory overhead
 and doesn't require much extra storage on disk.
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/cache.c b/fs/squashfs/cache.c
index f744be98cd5abc8dd6d93cf4a699981491f8e811..af0b738025929b1c18ac884734131ea5e843e40c 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/cache.c
+++ b/fs/squashfs/cache.c
@@ -70,11 +70,15 @@ struct squashfs_cache_entry *squashfs_cache_get(struct super_block *sb,
 	spin_lock(&cache->lock);
 
 	while (1) {
-		for (i = 0; i < cache->entries; i++)
-			if (cache->entry[i].block == block)
+		for (i = cache->curr_blk, n = 0; n < cache->entries; n++) {
+			if (cache->entry[i].block == block) {
+				cache->curr_blk = i;
 				break;
+			}
+			i = (i + 1) % cache->entries;
+		}
 
-		if (i == cache->entries) {
+		if (n == cache->entries) {
 			/*
 			 * Block not in cache, if all cache entries are used
 			 * go to sleep waiting for one to become available.
@@ -245,6 +249,7 @@ struct squashfs_cache *squashfs_cache_init(char *name, int entries,
 		goto cleanup;
 	}
 
+	cache->curr_blk = 0;
 	cache->next_blk = 0;
 	cache->unused = entries;
 	cache->entries = entries;
@@ -332,17 +337,20 @@ int squashfs_read_metadata(struct super_block *sb, void *buffer,
 		u64 *block, int *offset, int length)
 {
 	struct squashfs_sb_info *msblk = sb->s_fs_info;
-	int bytes, copied = length;
+	int bytes, res = length;
 	struct squashfs_cache_entry *entry;
 
 	TRACE("Entered squashfs_read_metadata [%llx:%x]\n", *block, *offset);
 
 	while (length) {
 		entry = squashfs_cache_get(sb, msblk->block_cache, *block, 0);
-		if (entry->error)
-			return entry->error;
-		else if (*offset >= entry->length)
-			return -EIO;
+		if (entry->error) {
+			res = entry->error;
+			goto error;
+		} else if (*offset >= entry->length) {
+			res = -EIO;
+			goto error;
+		}
 
 		bytes = squashfs_copy_data(buffer, entry, *offset, length);
 		if (buffer)
@@ -358,7 +366,11 @@ int squashfs_read_metadata(struct super_block *sb, void *buffer,
 		squashfs_cache_put(entry);
 	}
 
-	return copied;
+	return res;
+
+error:
+	squashfs_cache_put(entry);
+	return res;
 }
 
 
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/inode.c b/fs/squashfs/inode.c
index fd7b3b3bda136fa720c75421b3551815417affd7..81afbccfa8432ba49a644a16c2c0a0526da31ea5 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/squashfs/inode.c
@@ -208,8 +208,8 @@ int squashfs_read_inode(struct inode *inode, long long ino)
 		inode->i_op = &squashfs_inode_ops;
 		inode->i_fop = &generic_ro_fops;
 		inode->i_mode |= S_IFREG;
-		inode->i_blocks = ((inode->i_size -
-				le64_to_cpu(sqsh_ino->sparse) - 1) >> 9) + 1;
+		inode->i_blocks = (inode->i_size -
+				le64_to_cpu(sqsh_ino->sparse) + 511) >> 9;
 
 		squashfs_i(inode)->fragment_block = frag_blk;
 		squashfs_i(inode)->fragment_size = frag_size;
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h b/fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h
index 651f0b31d2966318bfd5ec7ce6ee4bd152486c8e..52934a22f29665a00f082b24aa57ce915e875913 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h
+++ b/fs/squashfs/squashfs_fs_sb.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 struct squashfs_cache {
 	char			*name;
 	int			entries;
+	int			curr_blk;
 	int			next_blk;
 	int			num_waiters;
 	int			unused;
diff --git a/fs/squashfs/super.c b/fs/squashfs/super.c
index d0858c2d9a47f7d4d38f131b14a1be7bf4c5f406..ecaa2f7bdb8f16ebac1a00896cc9d1a870351788 100644
--- a/fs/squashfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/squashfs/super.c
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ handle_fragments:
 
 check_directory_table:
 	/* Sanity check directory_table */
-	if (msblk->directory_table >= next_table) {
+	if (msblk->directory_table > next_table) {
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto failed_mount;
 	}