diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
index 284cc9d6ecd75e29df866a88e3c610cb944fd2bd..8f67a14fa9743a6a6abbaa6458e892a437a158e3 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
@@ -1715,20 +1715,6 @@ int btrfs_realloc_node(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	return err;
 }
 
-/*
- * The leaf data grows from end-to-front in the node.
- * this returns the address of the start of the last item,
- * which is the stop of the leaf data stack
- */
-static inline unsigned int leaf_data_end(struct btrfs_root *root,
-					 struct extent_buffer *leaf)
-{
-	u32 nr = btrfs_header_nritems(leaf);
-	if (nr == 0)
-		return BTRFS_LEAF_DATA_SIZE(root);
-	return btrfs_item_offset_nr(leaf, nr - 1);
-}
-
 
 /*
  * search for key in the extent_buffer.  The items start at offset p,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index cb0ae90649c09efda3c914bed1bb9c7810fe3bc6..5f1408b43e4890ddb58cda96644bcd7f28215808 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -2293,6 +2293,21 @@ static inline unsigned long btrfs_leaf_data(struct extent_buffer *l)
 	return offsetof(struct btrfs_leaf, items);
 }
 
+/*
+ * The leaf data grows from end-to-front in the node.
+ * this returns the address of the start of the last item,
+ * which is the stop of the leaf data stack
+ */
+static inline unsigned int leaf_data_end(struct btrfs_root *root,
+					 struct extent_buffer *leaf)
+{
+	u32 nr = btrfs_header_nritems(leaf);
+
+	if (nr == 0)
+		return BTRFS_LEAF_DATA_SIZE(root);
+	return btrfs_item_offset_nr(leaf, nr - 1);
+}
+
 /* struct btrfs_file_extent_item */
 BTRFS_SETGET_FUNCS(file_extent_type, struct btrfs_file_extent_item, type, 8);
 BTRFS_SETGET_STACK_FUNCS(stack_file_extent_disk_bytenr,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 0d1876c76732c0748e444bc08d8ea6a85d672c1b..ee40384c394d5647a8f9ee65e8c28f0cd32426fc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -3725,8 +3725,10 @@ static noinline_for_stack int write_one_eb(struct extent_buffer *eb,
 	struct block_device *bdev = fs_info->fs_devices->latest_bdev;
 	struct extent_io_tree *tree = &BTRFS_I(fs_info->btree_inode)->io_tree;
 	u64 offset = eb->start;
+	u32 nritems;
 	unsigned long i, num_pages;
 	unsigned long bio_flags = 0;
+	unsigned long start, end;
 	int write_flags = (epd->sync_io ? WRITE_SYNC : 0) | REQ_META;
 	int ret = 0;
 
@@ -3736,15 +3738,21 @@ static noinline_for_stack int write_one_eb(struct extent_buffer *eb,
 	if (btrfs_header_owner(eb) == BTRFS_TREE_LOG_OBJECTID)
 		bio_flags = EXTENT_BIO_TREE_LOG;
 
-	/* set btree node beyond nritems with 0 to avoid stale content */
+	/* set btree blocks beyond nritems with 0 to avoid stale content. */
+	nritems = btrfs_header_nritems(eb);
 	if (btrfs_header_level(eb) > 0) {
-		u32 nritems;
-		unsigned long end;
-
-		nritems = btrfs_header_nritems(eb);
 		end = btrfs_node_key_ptr_offset(nritems);
 
 		memset_extent_buffer(eb, 0, end, eb->len - end);
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * leaf:
+		 * header 0 1 2 .. N ... data_N .. data_2 data_1 data_0
+		 */
+		start = btrfs_item_nr_offset(nritems);
+		end = btrfs_leaf_data(eb) +
+		      leaf_data_end(fs_info->tree_root, eb);
+		memset_extent_buffer(eb, 0, start, end - start);
 	}
 
 	for (i = 0; i < num_pages; i++) {