diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 2c321b66f832..2dda1edf6d7d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 235fdb8ef2a313749cf3a42e70156c618263a388
+refs/heads/master: a9870c0e031527fbfa382019f30d2e9b98124a0d
diff --git a/trunk/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/trunk/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 7cb9d734f6e5..075854e7a044 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -4772,9 +4772,14 @@ int btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata(struct inode *inode, u64 num_bytes)
 	 * ret != 0 here means the qgroup reservation failed, we go straight to
 	 * the shared error handling then.
 	 */
-	if (ret == 0)
+	if (ret == 0) {
 		ret = reserve_metadata_bytes(root, block_rsv,
 					     to_reserve, flush);
+		if (ret && root->fs_info->quota_enabled) {
+			btrfs_qgroup_free(root, num_bytes +
+						nr_extents * root->leafsize);
+		}
+	}
 
 	if (ret) {
 		u64 to_free = 0;
@@ -4805,10 +4810,6 @@ int btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata(struct inode *inode, u64 num_bytes)
 						      btrfs_ino(inode),
 						      to_free, 0);
 		}
-		if (root->fs_info->quota_enabled) {
-			btrfs_qgroup_free(root, num_bytes +
-						nr_extents * root->leafsize);
-		}
 		if (delalloc_lock)
 			mutex_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_mutex);
 		return ret;