diff --git a/src/networking.cpp b/src/networking.cpp
index 08eebedba..5b1fe5894 100644
--- a/src/networking.cpp
+++ b/src/networking.cpp
@@ -2079,8 +2079,6 @@ int handleClientsWithPendingWrites(int iel, int aof_state) {
         * that may trigger write error or recreate handler. */
         if ((flags & CLIENT_PROTECTED) && !(flags & CLIENT_SLAVE)) continue;
 
-        //std::unique_lock<decltype(c->lock)> lock(c->lock);
-
         /* Don't write to clients that are going to be closed anyway. */
         if (c->flags & CLIENT_CLOSE_ASAP) continue;
 
@@ -2098,6 +2096,7 @@ int handleClientsWithPendingWrites(int iel, int aof_state) {
 
         /* If after the synchronous writes above we still have data to
         * output to the client, we need to install the writable handler. */
+        std::unique_lock<decltype(c->lock)> lock(c->lock);
         if (clientHasPendingReplies(c)) {
             if (connSetWriteHandlerWithBarrier(c->conn, sendReplyToClient, ae_flags, true) == C_ERR) {
                 freeClientAsync(c);
diff --git a/src/replication.cpp b/src/replication.cpp
index a71c1560f..0ef43485b 100644
--- a/src/replication.cpp
+++ b/src/replication.cpp
@@ -264,9 +264,8 @@ void resizeReplicationBacklog(long long newsize) {
         newsize = CONFIG_REPL_BACKLOG_MIN_SIZE;
     if (g_pserver->repl_backlog_size == newsize) return;
 
-    std::unique_lock<fastlock> repl_backlog_lock (g_pserver->repl_backlog_lock);
-
     if (g_pserver->repl_backlog != NULL) {
+        std::unique_lock<fastlock> repl_backlog_lock(g_pserver->repl_backlog_lock);
         /* What we actually do is to flush the old buffer and realloc a new
          * empty one. It will refill with new data incrementally.
          * The reason is that copying a few gigabytes adds latency and even
@@ -357,7 +356,7 @@ void freeReplicationBacklog(void) {
 void feedReplicationBacklog(const void *ptr, size_t len) {
     serverAssert(GlobalLocksAcquired());
     const unsigned char *p = (const unsigned char*)ptr;
-
+    std::unique_lock<fastlock> repl_backlog_lock(g_pserver->repl_backlog_lock, std::defer_lock);
 
     if (g_pserver->repl_batch_idxStart >= 0) {
         /* We are lower bounded by the lowest replica offset, or the batch offset start if not applicable */
@@ -417,6 +416,8 @@ void feedReplicationBacklog(const void *ptr, size_t len) {
                 // We need to update a few variables or later asserts will notice we dropped data
                 g_pserver->repl_batch_offStart = g_pserver->master_repl_offset + len;
                 g_pserver->repl_lowest_off = -1;
+                if (!repl_backlog_lock.owns_lock())
+                    repl_backlog_lock.lock();   // we need to acquire the lock if we'll be overwriting data that writeToClient may be reading
             }
         }
     }