diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 28ce5c8004d456da3d202d687465a755c2d4432b..92146a5afdc1a5f5ec3bfc9adcd14089843ae322 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -3208,6 +3208,8 @@ static int cache_save_setup(struct btrfs_block_group_cache *block_group,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	if (trans->aborted)
+		return 0;
 again:
 	inode = lookup_free_space_inode(root, block_group, path);
 	if (IS_ERR(inode) && PTR_ERR(inode) != -ENOENT) {
@@ -3243,6 +3245,20 @@ static int cache_save_setup(struct btrfs_block_group_cache *block_group,
 	 */
 	BTRFS_I(inode)->generation = 0;
 	ret = btrfs_update_inode(trans, root, inode);
+	if (ret) {
+		/*
+		 * So theoretically we could recover from this, simply set the
+		 * super cache generation to 0 so we know to invalidate the
+		 * cache, but then we'd have to keep track of the block groups
+		 * that fail this way so we know we _have_ to reset this cache
+		 * before the next commit or risk reading stale cache.  So to
+		 * limit our exposure to horrible edge cases lets just abort the
+		 * transaction, this only happens in really bad situations
+		 * anyway.
+		 */
+		btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, root, ret);
+		goto out_put;
+	}
 	WARN_ON(ret);
 
 	if (i_size_read(inode) > 0) {