diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index 0334452a7be1e4731700c123d6bbc18fcbc4ae9c..aea1b3cee8876efd9b2ad11ca340a0d4ba538684 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -716,6 +716,8 @@ struct btrfs_delayed_root;
 #define BTRFS_FS_BTREE_ERR			11
 #define BTRFS_FS_LOG1_ERR			12
 #define BTRFS_FS_LOG2_ERR			13
+#define BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_OVERRIDE			14
+
 /*
  * Indicate that a whole-filesystem exclusive operation is running
  * (device replace, resize, device add/delete, balance)
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
index deffbeb74a0be7499c42578efc51903c3737f3bf..458fec01d814d75ad8f0d06becb9af93e19bfd1c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
@@ -2338,6 +2338,11 @@ static int qgroup_reserve(struct btrfs_root *root, u64 num_bytes, bool enforce)
 
 	if (num_bytes == 0)
 		return 0;
+
+	if (test_bit(BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_OVERRIDE, &fs_info->flags) &&
+	    capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
+		enforce = false;
+
 retry:
 	spin_lock(&fs_info->qgroup_lock);
 	quota_root = fs_info->quota_root;