diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h
index 7fc2b129a2e79ff998acc4c0ced441cf8d18e205..bcac769a7df6fddf9baca65f294cbfb2388c448c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h
@@ -40,6 +40,13 @@ struct xfs_ifork {
  */
 #define XFS_IEXT_ADD_NOSPLIT_CNT	(1)
 
+/*
+ * Punching out an extent from the middle of an existing extent can cause the
+ * extent count to increase by 1.
+ * i.e. | Old extent | Hole | Old extent |
+ */
+#define XFS_IEXT_PUNCH_HOLE_CNT		(1)
+
 /*
  * Fork handling.
  */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c
index adc7507947bf8fea04f832eac48ef14bb8e1d235..44ec0f2d5253f63e366a5d18eb74950224f6dc27 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_item.c
@@ -439,6 +439,7 @@ xfs_bui_item_recover(
 	xfs_exntst_t			state;
 	unsigned int			bui_type;
 	int				whichfork;
+	int				iext_delta;
 	int				error = 0;
 
 	/* Only one mapping operation per BUI... */
@@ -497,12 +498,14 @@ xfs_bui_item_recover(
 	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 	xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0);
 
-	if (bui_type == XFS_BMAP_MAP) {
-		error = xfs_iext_count_may_overflow(ip, whichfork,
-				XFS_IEXT_ADD_NOSPLIT_CNT);
-		if (error)
-			goto err_cancel;
-	}
+	if (bui_type == XFS_BMAP_MAP)
+		iext_delta = XFS_IEXT_ADD_NOSPLIT_CNT;
+	else
+		iext_delta = XFS_IEXT_PUNCH_HOLE_CNT;
+
+	error = xfs_iext_count_may_overflow(ip, whichfork, iext_delta);
+	if (error)
+		goto err_cancel;
 
 	count = bmap->me_len;
 	error = xfs_trans_log_finish_bmap_update(tp, budp, bui_type, ip,
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
index c727ac76d03b5da8fc5e6a7ead5cb6292c59cd21..202d6af3e503c8b5351fdcfb943b1a37082e8a22 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_bmap_util.c
@@ -859,6 +859,11 @@ xfs_unmap_extent(
 	if (error)
 		return error;
 
+	error = xfs_iext_count_may_overflow(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK,
+			XFS_IEXT_PUNCH_HOLE_CNT);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_trans_cancel;
+
 	error = xfs_bunmapi(tp, ip, startoffset_fsb, len_fsb, 0, 2, done);
 	if (error)
 		goto out_trans_cancel;
@@ -1136,6 +1141,11 @@ xfs_insert_file_space(
 	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 	xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0);
 
+	error = xfs_iext_count_may_overflow(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK,
+			XFS_IEXT_PUNCH_HOLE_CNT);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_trans_cancel;
+
 	/*
 	 * The extent shifting code works on extent granularity. So, if stop_fsb
 	 * is not the starting block of extent, we need to split the extent at