diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 96f606deee313aed506b7e7ee229fc801ba5de80..696936cad0fa84493c5fcdf39ecffb653a0265bf 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -3327,7 +3327,7 @@ xfs_iflush(
 	struct xfs_buf		**bpp)
 {
 	struct xfs_mount	*mp = ip->i_mount;
-	struct xfs_buf		*bp;
+	struct xfs_buf		*bp = NULL;
 	struct xfs_dinode	*dip;
 	int			error;
 
@@ -3369,14 +3369,22 @@ xfs_iflush(
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode.
+	 * Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode. We are doing a try-lock
+	 * operation here, so we may get  an EAGAIN error. In that case, we
+	 * simply want to return with the inode still dirty.
+	 *
+	 * If we get any other error, we effectively have a corruption situation
+	 * and we cannot flush the inode, so we treat it the same as failing
+	 * xfs_iflush_int().
 	 */
 	error = xfs_imap_to_bp(mp, NULL, &ip->i_imap, &dip, &bp, XBF_TRYLOCK,
 			       0);
-	if (error || !bp) {
+	if (error == -EAGAIN) {
 		xfs_ifunlock(ip);
 		return error;
 	}
+	if (error)
+		goto corrupt_out;
 
 	/*
 	 * First flush out the inode that xfs_iflush was called with.
@@ -3404,7 +3412,8 @@ xfs_iflush(
 	return 0;
 
 corrupt_out:
-	xfs_buf_relse(bp);
+	if (bp)
+		xfs_buf_relse(bp);
 	xfs_force_shutdown(mp, SHUTDOWN_CORRUPT_INCORE);
 cluster_corrupt_out:
 	error = -EFSCORRUPTED;