diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index d9698fda2d12c086edd5d0390202f809cd5c46ef..98fe701933976c71473f16eed8d571c3576940a2 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -329,6 +329,8 @@ static int verify_parent_transid(struct extent_io_tree *io_tree,
 {
 	struct extent_state *cached_state = NULL;
 	int ret;
+	bool need_lock = (current->journal_info ==
+			  (void *)BTRFS_SEND_TRANS_STUB);
 
 	if (!parent_transid || btrfs_header_generation(eb) == parent_transid)
 		return 0;
@@ -336,6 +338,11 @@ static int verify_parent_transid(struct extent_io_tree *io_tree,
 	if (atomic)
 		return -EAGAIN;
 
+	if (need_lock) {
+		btrfs_tree_read_lock(eb);
+		btrfs_set_lock_blocking_rw(eb, BTRFS_READ_LOCK);
+	}
+
 	lock_extent_bits(io_tree, eb->start, eb->start + eb->len - 1,
 			 0, &cached_state);
 	if (extent_buffer_uptodate(eb) &&
@@ -347,10 +354,21 @@ static int verify_parent_transid(struct extent_io_tree *io_tree,
 		       "found %llu\n",
 		       eb->start, parent_transid, btrfs_header_generation(eb));
 	ret = 1;
-	clear_extent_buffer_uptodate(eb);
+
+	/*
+	 * Things reading via commit roots that don't have normal protection,
+	 * like send, can have a really old block in cache that may point at a
+	 * block that has been free'd and re-allocated.  So don't clear uptodate
+	 * if we find an eb that is under IO (dirty/writeback) because we could
+	 * end up reading in the stale data and then writing it back out and
+	 * making everybody very sad.
+	 */
+	if (!extent_buffer_under_io(eb))
+		clear_extent_buffer_uptodate(eb);
 out:
 	unlock_extent_cached(io_tree, eb->start, eb->start + eb->len - 1,
 			     &cached_state, GFP_NOFS);
+	btrfs_tree_read_unlock_blocking(eb);
 	return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index fd78c84821c8315f65a58b1293058e0b6a27ec7f..d35a3ca15fb5c446b39583faeaa625009838073e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -4315,7 +4315,7 @@ static void __free_extent_buffer(struct extent_buffer *eb)
 	kmem_cache_free(extent_buffer_cache, eb);
 }
 
-static int extent_buffer_under_io(struct extent_buffer *eb)
+int extent_buffer_under_io(struct extent_buffer *eb)
 {
 	return (atomic_read(&eb->io_pages) ||
 		test_bit(EXTENT_BUFFER_WRITEBACK, &eb->bflags) ||
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
index 58b27e5ab52158a2d03a1bf7d7d612878489a9ac..c488b45237bf82c544471338d3f13ba6a1ab41d0 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.h
@@ -320,6 +320,7 @@ int set_extent_buffer_dirty(struct extent_buffer *eb);
 int set_extent_buffer_uptodate(struct extent_buffer *eb);
 int clear_extent_buffer_uptodate(struct extent_buffer *eb);
 int extent_buffer_uptodate(struct extent_buffer *eb);
+int extent_buffer_under_io(struct extent_buffer *eb);
 int map_private_extent_buffer(struct extent_buffer *eb, unsigned long offset,
 		      unsigned long min_len, char **map,
 		      unsigned long *map_start,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index 9b6da9d55f9a8778c47cf64c15a143951fc2ccf7..d00534b78382df62eb7f2a310f64ffd6747f2d27 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -5718,7 +5718,9 @@ long btrfs_ioctl_send(struct file *mnt_file, void __user *arg_)
 			NULL);
 	sort_clone_roots = 1;
 
+	current->journal_info = (void *)BTRFS_SEND_TRANS_STUB;
 	ret = send_subvol(sctx);
+	current->journal_info = NULL;
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto out;
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index a04707f740d6aed809ccbf477cfc3305dfe5c44f..038177cfabbb3da52535e64273b43d21775ee3a4 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -375,7 +375,8 @@ start_transaction(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 num_items, unsigned int type,
 	if (test_bit(BTRFS_FS_STATE_ERROR, &root->fs_info->fs_state))
 		return ERR_PTR(-EROFS);
 
-	if (current->journal_info) {
+	if (current->journal_info &&
+	    current->journal_info != (void *)BTRFS_SEND_TRANS_STUB) {
 		WARN_ON(type & TRANS_EXTWRITERS);
 		h = current->journal_info;
 		h->use_count++;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
index 6ac037e9f9f0557524b7ed29b6b72a768f7a23cf..2bcba89d952e877d93ff924130c3258227fcc986 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
@@ -78,6 +78,8 @@ struct btrfs_transaction {
 #define TRANS_EXTWRITERS	(__TRANS_USERSPACE | __TRANS_START |	\
 				 __TRANS_ATTACH)
 
+#define BTRFS_SEND_TRANS_STUB	1
+
 struct btrfs_trans_handle {
 	u64 transid;
 	u64 bytes_reserved;