diff --git a/include/asterisk/pbx.h b/include/asterisk/pbx.h
index bc1155b8a61d2eac1b06f7e63e91650e59ca12bd..3568e7ec4b76c09e9ba3252fec75a6344fa20510 100644
--- a/include/asterisk/pbx.h
+++ b/include/asterisk/pbx.h
@@ -846,10 +846,29 @@ int pbx_set_autofallthrough(int newval);
   set to 1, sets to use the new Trie-based pattern matcher.  If newval set to 0, sets to use
   the old linear-search algorithm.  Returns previous value. */
 int pbx_set_extenpatternmatchnew(int newval);
+
+/*!
+ * \note This function will handle locking the channel as needed.
+ */
 int ast_goto_if_exists(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *context, const char *exten, int priority);
-/* I can find neither parsable nor parseable at dictionary.com, but google gives me 169000 hits for parseable and only 49,800 for parsable */
+
+/*!
+ * \note I can find neither parsable nor parseable at dictionary.com, 
+ *       but google gives me 169000 hits for parseable and only 49,800 
+ *       for parsable 
+ *
+ * \note This function will handle locking the channel as needed.
+ */
 int ast_parseable_goto(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *goto_string);
+
+/*!
+ * \note This function will handle locking the channel as needed.
+ */
 int ast_explicit_goto(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *context, const char *exten, int priority);
+
+/*!
+ * \note This function will handle locking the channel as needed.
+ */
 int ast_async_goto_if_exists(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *context, const char *exten, int priority);
 
 struct ast_custom_function* ast_custom_function_find(const char *name);
diff --git a/main/pbx.c b/main/pbx.c
index 857b7e21897723880e0c1e6d7babe5dd0b9fdf57..e3498c5adfb19efaf6542fc8dd23462458b0879e 100644
--- a/main/pbx.c
+++ b/main/pbx.c
@@ -5719,6 +5719,8 @@ int ast_explicit_goto(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *context, const char
 	if (!chan)
 		return -1;
 
+	ast_channel_lock(chan);
+
 	if (!ast_strlen_zero(context))
 		ast_copy_string(chan->context, context, sizeof(chan->context));
 	if (!ast_strlen_zero(exten))
@@ -5730,6 +5732,8 @@ int ast_explicit_goto(struct ast_channel *chan, const char *context, const char
 			chan->priority--;
 	}
 
+	ast_channel_unlock(chan);
+
 	return 0;
 }