diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 951f7b8f85b7048b92f4596ba232039c6eebfdba..db5ead891e244898f8776c14019881fa5b568bce 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -5414,22 +5414,11 @@ static int btrfs_log_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	 * Only run delayed items if we are a directory. We want to make sure
 	 * all directory indexes hit the fs/subvolume tree so we can find them
 	 * and figure out which index ranges have to be logged.
-	 *
-	 * Otherwise commit the delayed inode only if the full sync flag is set,
-	 * as we want to make sure an up to date version is in the subvolume
-	 * tree so copy_inode_items_to_log() / copy_items() can find it and copy
-	 * it to the log tree. For a non full sync, we always log the inode item
-	 * based on the in-memory struct btrfs_inode which is always up to date.
 	 */
-	if (S_ISDIR(inode->vfs_inode.i_mode))
-		ret = btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items(trans, inode);
-	else if (test_bit(BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC, &inode->runtime_flags))
-		ret = btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_inode(inode);
-
-	if (ret) {
-		btrfs_free_path(path);
-		btrfs_free_path(dst_path);
-		return ret;
+	if (S_ISDIR(inode->vfs_inode.i_mode)) {
+		err = btrfs_commit_inode_delayed_items(trans, inode);
+		if (err)
+			goto out;
 	}
 
 	if (inode_only == LOG_OTHER_INODE || inode_only == LOG_OTHER_INODE_ALL) {
@@ -5630,7 +5619,7 @@ static int btrfs_log_inode(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	spin_unlock(&inode->lock);
 out_unlock:
 	mutex_unlock(&inode->log_mutex);
-
+out:
 	btrfs_free_path(path);
 	btrfs_free_path(dst_path);
 	return err;