diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 4ea9dd93a545..dec508a28ffa 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -10348,6 +10348,7 @@ static int __btrfs_prealloc_file_range(struct inode *inode, int mode,
 	struct btrfs_root *root = BTRFS_I(inode)->root;
 	struct btrfs_key ins;
 	u64 cur_offset = start;
+	u64 clear_offset = start;
 	u64 i_size;
 	u64 cur_bytes;
 	u64 last_alloc = (u64)-1;
@@ -10382,6 +10383,15 @@ static int __btrfs_prealloc_file_range(struct inode *inode, int mode,
 				btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
 			break;
 		}
+
+		/*
+		 * We've reserved this space, and thus converted it from
+		 * ->bytes_may_use to ->bytes_reserved.  Any error that happens
+		 * from here on out we will only need to clear our reservation
+		 * for the remaining unreserved area, so advance our
+		 * clear_offset by our extent size.
+		 */
+		clear_offset += ins.offset;
 		btrfs_dec_block_group_reservations(fs_info, ins.objectid);
 
 		last_alloc = ins.offset;
@@ -10462,9 +10472,9 @@ static int __btrfs_prealloc_file_range(struct inode *inode, int mode,
 		if (own_trans)
 			btrfs_end_transaction(trans);
 	}
-	if (cur_offset < end)
-		btrfs_free_reserved_data_space(inode, NULL, cur_offset,
-			end - cur_offset + 1);
+	if (clear_offset < end)
+		btrfs_free_reserved_data_space(inode, NULL, clear_offset,
+			end - clear_offset + 1);
 	return ret;
 }