diff --git a/fs/btrfs/direct-io.c b/fs/btrfs/direct-io.c
index 8567af46e16f..eacbb74bf6bc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/direct-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/direct-io.c
@@ -855,6 +855,22 @@ ssize_t btrfs_direct_write(struct kiocb *iocb, struct iov_iter *from)
 		btrfs_inode_unlock(BTRFS_I(inode), ilock_flags);
 		goto buffered;
 	}
+	/*
+	 * We can't control the folios being passed in, applications can write
+	 * to them while a direct IO write is in progress.  This means the
+	 * content might change after we calculated the data checksum.
+	 * Therefore we can end up storing a checksum that doesn't match the
+	 * persisted data.
+	 *
+	 * To be extra safe and avoid false data checksum mismatch, if the
+	 * inode requires data checksum, just fallback to buffered IO.
+	 * For buffered IO we have full control of page cache and can ensure
+	 * no one is modifying the content during writeback.
+	 */
+	if (!(BTRFS_I(inode)->flags & BTRFS_INODE_NODATASUM)) {
+		btrfs_inode_unlock(BTRFS_I(inode), ilock_flags);
+		goto buffered;
+	}
 
 	/*
 	 * The iov_iter can be mapped to the same file range we are writing to.