diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
index 829ad632533b80eac845008972f4a2d24a15bf3a..29ffc0569ce19eb8fbb602bdc27e75e1b22a779c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -1153,6 +1153,10 @@ xfs_bmap_add_attrfork(
 		goto trans_cancel;
 	if (XFS_IFORK_Q(ip))
 		goto trans_cancel;
+	if (ip->i_d.di_anextents != 0) {
+		error = -EFSCORRUPTED;
+		goto trans_cancel;
+	}
 	if (ip->i_d.di_aformat != XFS_DINODE_FMT_EXTENTS) {
 		/*
 		 * For inodes coming from pre-6.2 filesystems.
@@ -1160,7 +1164,6 @@ xfs_bmap_add_attrfork(
 		ASSERT(ip->i_d.di_aformat == 0);
 		ip->i_d.di_aformat = XFS_DINODE_FMT_EXTENTS;
 	}
-	ASSERT(ip->i_d.di_anextents == 0);
 
 	xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0);
 	xfs_trans_log_inode(tp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);