diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h
index 917e289ad9623..c8f279edc5c1f 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_fork.h
@@ -79,6 +79,15 @@ struct xfs_ifork {
 #define XFS_IEXT_WRITE_UNWRITTEN_CNT	(2)
 
 
+/*
+ * Moving an extent to data fork can cause a sub-interval of an existing extent
+ * to be unmapped. This will increase extent count by 1. Mapping in the new
+ * extent can increase the extent count by 1 again i.e.
+ * | Old extent | New extent | Old extent |
+ * Hence number of extents increases by 2.
+ */
+#define XFS_IEXT_REFLINK_END_COW_CNT	(2)
+
 /*
  * Fork handling.
  */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
index 6fa05fb78189b..ca0ac1426d74a 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_reflink.c
@@ -628,6 +628,11 @@ xfs_reflink_end_cow_extent(
 	xfs_ilock(ip, XFS_ILOCK_EXCL);
 	xfs_trans_ijoin(tp, ip, 0);
 
+	error = xfs_iext_count_may_overflow(ip, XFS_DATA_FORK,
+			XFS_IEXT_REFLINK_END_COW_CNT);
+	if (error)
+		goto out_cancel;
+
 	/*
 	 * In case of racing, overlapping AIO writes no COW extents might be
 	 * left by the time I/O completes for the loser of the race.  In that