* in separate transaction */
        retval = dquot_initialize(dir);
        if (retval)
-               return retval;
+               goto out_trace;
        retval = dquot_initialize(d_inode(dentry));
        if (retval)
-               return retval;
+               goto out_trace;
 
-       retval = -ENOENT;
        bh = ext4_find_entry(dir, &dentry->d_name, &de, NULL);
-       if (IS_ERR(bh))
-               return PTR_ERR(bh);
-       if (!bh)
-               goto end_unlink;
+       if (IS_ERR(bh)) {
+               retval = PTR_ERR(bh);
+               goto out_trace;
+       }
+       if (!bh) {
+               retval = -ENOENT;
+               goto out_trace;
+       }
 
        inode = d_inode(dentry);
 
-       retval = -EFSCORRUPTED;
-       if (le32_to_cpu(de->inode) != inode->i_ino)
-               goto end_unlink;
+       if (le32_to_cpu(de->inode) != inode->i_ino) {
+               retval = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+               goto out_bh;
+       }
 
        handle = ext4_journal_start(dir, EXT4_HT_DIR,
                                    EXT4_DATA_TRANS_BLOCKS(dir->i_sb));
        if (IS_ERR(handle)) {
                retval = PTR_ERR(handle);
-               handle = NULL;
-               goto end_unlink;
+               goto out_bh;
        }
 
        if (IS_DIRSYNC(dir))
 
        retval = ext4_delete_entry(handle, dir, de, bh);
        if (retval)
-               goto end_unlink;
+               goto out_handle;
        dir->i_ctime = dir->i_mtime = current_time(dir);
        ext4_update_dx_flag(dir);
        retval = ext4_mark_inode_dirty(handle, dir);
        if (retval)
-               goto end_unlink;
+               goto out_handle;
        if (inode->i_nlink == 0)
                ext4_warning_inode(inode, "Deleting file '%.*s' with no links",
                                   dentry->d_name.len, dentry->d_name.name);
                d_invalidate(dentry);
 #endif
 
-end_unlink:
+out_handle:
+       ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+out_bh:
        brelse(bh);
-       if (handle)
-               ext4_journal_stop(handle);
+out_trace:
        trace_ext4_unlink_exit(dentry, retval);
        return retval;
 }