diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
index cdbd342a5249988aeecadcc695ac2f51c6a3c085..bce2b5351d64ea675ca5634e9c41cc7643e0c5a0 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
@@ -552,6 +552,9 @@ xfs_reflink_trim_irec_to_next_cow(
  *
  * If cancel_real is true this function cancels all COW fork extents for the
  * inode; if cancel_real is false, real extents are not cleared.
+ *
+ * Caller must have already joined the inode to the current transaction. The
+ * inode will be joined to the transaction returned to the caller.
  */
 int
 xfs_reflink_cancel_cow_blocks(
@@ -592,7 +595,6 @@ xfs_reflink_cancel_cow_blocks(
 			if (error)
 				break;
 		} else if (del.br_state == XFS_EXT_UNWRITTEN || cancel_real) {
-			xfs_trans_ijoin(*tpp, ip, 0);
 			xfs_defer_init(&dfops, &firstfsb);
 
 			/* Free the CoW orphan record. */
@@ -1570,6 +1572,7 @@ xfs_reflink_clear_inode_flag(
 	 * We didn't find any shared blocks so turn off the reflink flag.
 	 * First, get rid of any leftover CoW mappings.
 	 */
+	xfs_trans_ijoin(*tpp, ip, 0);
 	error = xfs_reflink_cancel_cow_blocks(ip, tpp, 0, NULLFILEOFF, true);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
@@ -1578,7 +1581,6 @@ xfs_reflink_clear_inode_flag(
 	trace_xfs_reflink_unset_inode_flag(ip);
 	ip->i_d.di_flags2 &= ~XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK;
 	xfs_inode_clear_cowblocks_tag(ip);
-	xfs_trans_ijoin(*tpp, ip, 0);
 	xfs_trans_log_inode(*tpp, ip, XFS_ILOG_CORE);
 
 	return error;