diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index a8ff25aedca1c05539442507016cc9c47133c76f..a22b5cc921ad2efd10c5c8d0c8ad5bb3c45afd47 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -4815,14 +4815,49 @@ int btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata(struct inode *inode, u64 num_bytes)
 	 * If the inodes csum_bytes is the same as the original
 	 * csum_bytes then we know we haven't raced with any free()ers
 	 * so we can just reduce our inodes csum bytes and carry on.
-	 * Otherwise we have to do the normal free thing to account for
-	 * the case that the free side didn't free up its reserve
-	 * because of this outstanding reservation.
 	 */
-	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes == csum_bytes)
+	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes == csum_bytes) {
 		calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, num_bytes, 0);
-	else
-		to_free = calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, num_bytes, 0);
+	} else {
+		u64 orig_csum_bytes = BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes;
+		u64 bytes;
+
+		/*
+		 * This is tricky, but first we need to figure out how much we
+		 * free'd from any free-ers that occured during this
+		 * reservation, so we reset ->csum_bytes to the csum_bytes
+		 * before we dropped our lock, and then call the free for the
+		 * number of bytes that were freed while we were trying our
+		 * reservation.
+		 */
+		bytes = csum_bytes - BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes;
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes = csum_bytes;
+		to_free = calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, bytes, 0);
+
+
+		/*
+		 * Now we need to see how much we would have freed had we not
+		 * been making this reservation and our ->csum_bytes were not
+		 * artificially inflated.
+		 */
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes = csum_bytes - num_bytes;
+		bytes = csum_bytes - orig_csum_bytes;
+		bytes = calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, bytes, 0);
+
+		/*
+		 * Now reset ->csum_bytes to what it should be.  If bytes is
+		 * more than to_free then we would have free'd more space had we
+		 * not had an artificially high ->csum_bytes, so we need to free
+		 * the remainder.  If bytes is the same or less then we don't
+		 * need to do anything, the other free-ers did the correct
+		 * thing.
+		 */
+		BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes = orig_csum_bytes - num_bytes;
+		if (bytes > to_free)
+			to_free = bytes - to_free;
+		else
+			to_free = 0;
+	}
 	spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
 	if (dropped)
 		to_free += btrfs_calc_trans_metadata_size(root, dropped);