diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index c1cd3fe2b29534938cf2784721616c84e2c6926f..355ff08e9d44ec937ffc07b9ab57fd731f10e47e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -388,10 +388,31 @@ static noinline int add_async_extent(struct async_cow *cow,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check if the inode has flags compatible with compression
+ */
+static inline bool inode_can_compress(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (BTRFS_I(inode)->flags & BTRFS_INODE_NODATACOW ||
+	    BTRFS_I(inode)->flags & BTRFS_INODE_NODATASUM)
+		return false;
+	return true;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Check if the inode needs to be submitted to compression, based on mount
+ * options, defragmentation, properties or heuristics.
+ */
 static inline int inode_need_compress(struct inode *inode, u64 start, u64 end)
 {
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = btrfs_sb(inode->i_sb);
 
+	if (!inode_can_compress(inode)) {
+		WARN(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_BTRFS_DEBUG),
+			KERN_ERR "BTRFS: unexpected compression for ino %llu\n",
+			btrfs_ino(BTRFS_I(inode)));
+		return 0;
+	}
 	/* force compress */
 	if (btrfs_test_opt(fs_info, FORCE_COMPRESS))
 		return 1;
@@ -1596,7 +1617,8 @@ static int run_delalloc_range(void *private_data, struct page *locked_page,
 	} else if (BTRFS_I(inode)->flags & BTRFS_INODE_PREALLOC && !force_cow) {
 		ret = run_delalloc_nocow(inode, locked_page, start, end,
 					 page_started, 0, nr_written);
-	} else if (!inode_need_compress(inode, start, end)) {
+	} else if (!inode_can_compress(inode) ||
+		   !inode_need_compress(inode, start, end)) {
 		ret = cow_file_range(inode, locked_page, start, end, end,
 				      page_started, nr_written, 1, NULL);
 	} else {