diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
index 8a30ad54bd46aabc72f4ac1800890b5bd8041e11..7da34766555284486e39a08306f88a876deeefc3 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.c
@@ -1349,6 +1349,12 @@ dm_thin_id dm_thin_dev_id(struct dm_thin_device *td)
 	return td->id;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check whether @time (of block creation) is older than @td's last snapshot.
+ * If so then the associated block is shared with the last snapshot device.
+ * Any block on a device created *after* the device last got snapshotted is
+ * necessarily not shared.
+ */
 static bool __snapshotted_since(struct dm_thin_device *td, uint32_t time)
 {
 	return td->snapshotted_time > time;
@@ -1458,6 +1464,20 @@ int dm_thin_remove_block(struct dm_thin_device *td, dm_block_t block)
 	return r;
 }
 
+int dm_pool_block_is_used(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t b, bool *result)
+{
+	int r;
+	uint32_t ref_count;
+
+	down_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+	r = dm_sm_get_count(pmd->data_sm, b, &ref_count);
+	if (!r)
+		*result = (ref_count != 0);
+	up_read(&pmd->root_lock);
+
+	return r;
+}
+
 bool dm_thin_changed_this_transaction(struct dm_thin_device *td)
 {
 	int r;
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
index 7bcc0e1d62386768d540c41da8e0a25bf7fe9e78..2edf5dbac76a94381d10c12de7200f8f296a96b9 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin-metadata.h
@@ -181,6 +181,8 @@ int dm_pool_get_data_block_size(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, sector_t *result);
 
 int dm_pool_get_data_dev_size(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t *result);
 
+int dm_pool_block_is_used(struct dm_pool_metadata *pmd, dm_block_t b, bool *result);
+
 /*
  * Returns -ENOSPC if the new size is too small and already allocated
  * blocks would be lost.
diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
index da65febdb6c48fe59b03e2d34d40c77a9cd9b8bd..51e656a3002c1b0184860631b38e63c551162095 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-thin.c
@@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ struct dm_thin_new_mapping {
 	unsigned quiesced:1;
 	unsigned prepared:1;
 	unsigned pass_discard:1;
+	unsigned definitely_not_shared:1;
 
 	struct thin_c *tc;
 	dm_block_t virt_block;
@@ -683,7 +684,15 @@ static void process_prepared_discard_passdown(struct dm_thin_new_mapping *m)
 	cell_defer_no_holder(tc, m->cell2);
 
 	if (m->pass_discard)
-		remap_and_issue(tc, m->bio, m->data_block);
+		if (m->definitely_not_shared)
+			remap_and_issue(tc, m->bio, m->data_block);
+		else {
+			bool used = false;
+			if (dm_pool_block_is_used(tc->pool->pmd, m->data_block, &used) || used)
+				bio_endio(m->bio, 0);
+			else
+				remap_and_issue(tc, m->bio, m->data_block);
+		}
 	else
 		bio_endio(m->bio, 0);
 
@@ -1036,7 +1045,8 @@ static void process_discard(struct thin_c *tc, struct bio *bio)
 			 */
 			m = get_next_mapping(pool);
 			m->tc = tc;
-			m->pass_discard = (!lookup_result.shared) && pool->pf.discard_passdown;
+			m->pass_discard = pool->pf.discard_passdown;
+			m->definitely_not_shared = !lookup_result.shared;
 			m->virt_block = block;
 			m->data_block = lookup_result.block;
 			m->cell = cell;