diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
index 2be19083713f..d03469f61801 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/xattr.c
@@ -6804,16 +6804,15 @@ static int ocfs2_lock_reflink_xattr_rec_allocators(
 	return ret;
 }
 
-static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle_t *handle,
+static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_bucket(handle_t *handle,
 				u64 blkno, u64 new_blkno, u32 clusters,
+				u32 *cpos, int num_buckets,
 				struct ocfs2_alloc_context *meta_ac,
 				struct ocfs2_alloc_context *data_ac,
 				struct ocfs2_reflink_xattr_tree_args *args)
 {
 	int i, j, ret = 0;
 	struct super_block *sb = args->reflink->old_inode->i_sb;
-	u32 bpc = ocfs2_xattr_buckets_per_cluster(OCFS2_SB(sb));
-	u32 num_buckets = clusters * bpc;
 	int bpb = args->old_bucket->bu_blocks;
 	struct ocfs2_xattr_value_buf vb = {
 		.vb_access = ocfs2_journal_access,
@@ -6832,14 +6831,6 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle_t *handle,
 			break;
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * The real bucket num in this series of blocks is stored
-		 * in the 1st bucket.
-		 */
-		if (i == 0)
-			num_buckets = le16_to_cpu(
-				bucket_xh(args->old_bucket)->xh_num_buckets);
-
 		ret = ocfs2_xattr_bucket_journal_access(handle,
 						args->new_bucket,
 						OCFS2_JOURNAL_ACCESS_CREATE);
@@ -6853,6 +6844,18 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle_t *handle,
 			       bucket_block(args->old_bucket, j),
 			       sb->s_blocksize);
 
+		/*
+		 * Record the start cpos so that we can use it to initialize
+		 * our xattr tree we also set the xh_num_bucket for the new
+		 * bucket.
+		 */
+		if (i == 0) {
+			*cpos = le32_to_cpu(bucket_xh(args->new_bucket)->
+					    xh_entries[0].xe_name_hash);
+			bucket_xh(args->new_bucket)->xh_num_buckets =
+				cpu_to_le16(num_buckets);
+		}
+
 		ocfs2_xattr_bucket_journal_dirty(handle, args->new_bucket);
 
 		ret = ocfs2_reflink_xattr_header(handle, args->reflink,
@@ -6882,6 +6885,7 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle_t *handle,
 		}
 
 		ocfs2_xattr_bucket_journal_dirty(handle, args->new_bucket);
+
 		ocfs2_xattr_bucket_relse(args->old_bucket);
 		ocfs2_xattr_bucket_relse(args->new_bucket);
 	}
@@ -6890,6 +6894,75 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle_t *handle,
 	ocfs2_xattr_bucket_relse(args->new_bucket);
 	return ret;
 }
+
+static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle_t *handle,
+				struct inode *inode,
+				struct ocfs2_reflink_xattr_tree_args *args,
+				struct ocfs2_extent_tree *et,
+				struct ocfs2_alloc_context *meta_ac,
+				struct ocfs2_alloc_context *data_ac,
+				u64 blkno, u32 cpos, u32 len)
+{
+	int ret, first_inserted = 0;
+	u32 p_cluster, num_clusters, reflink_cpos = 0;
+	u64 new_blkno;
+	unsigned int num_buckets, reflink_buckets;
+	unsigned int bpc =
+		ocfs2_xattr_buckets_per_cluster(OCFS2_SB(inode->i_sb));
+
+	ret = ocfs2_read_xattr_bucket(args->old_bucket, blkno);
+	if (ret) {
+		mlog_errno(ret);
+		goto out;
+	}
+	num_buckets = le16_to_cpu(bucket_xh(args->old_bucket)->xh_num_buckets);
+	ocfs2_xattr_bucket_relse(args->old_bucket);
+
+	while (len && num_buckets) {
+		ret = ocfs2_claim_clusters(handle, data_ac,
+					   1, &p_cluster, &num_clusters);
+		if (ret) {
+			mlog_errno(ret);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		new_blkno = ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(inode->i_sb, p_cluster);
+		reflink_buckets = min(num_buckets, bpc * num_clusters);
+
+		ret = ocfs2_reflink_xattr_bucket(handle, blkno,
+						 new_blkno, num_clusters,
+						 &reflink_cpos, reflink_buckets,
+						 meta_ac, data_ac, args);
+		if (ret) {
+			mlog_errno(ret);
+			goto out;
+		}
+
+		/*
+		 * For the 1st allocated cluster, we make it use the same cpos
+		 * so that the xattr tree looks the same as the original one
+		 * in the most case.
+		 */
+		if (!first_inserted) {
+			reflink_cpos = cpos;
+			first_inserted = 1;
+		}
+		ret = ocfs2_insert_extent(handle, et, reflink_cpos, new_blkno,
+					  num_clusters, 0, meta_ac);
+		if (ret)
+			mlog_errno(ret);
+
+		mlog(0, "insert new xattr extent rec start %llu len %u to %u\n",
+		     (unsigned long long)new_blkno, num_clusters, reflink_cpos);
+
+		len -= num_clusters;
+		blkno += ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(inode->i_sb, num_clusters);
+		num_buckets -= reflink_buckets;
+	}
+out:
+	return ret;
+}
+
 /*
  * Create the same xattr extent record in the new inode's xattr tree.
  */
@@ -6901,8 +6974,6 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_rec(struct inode *inode,
 				   void *para)
 {
 	int ret, credits = 0;
-	u32 p_cluster, num_clusters;
-	u64 new_blkno;
 	handle_t *handle;
 	struct ocfs2_reflink_xattr_tree_args *args =
 			(struct ocfs2_reflink_xattr_tree_args *)para;
@@ -6911,6 +6982,9 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_rec(struct inode *inode,
 	struct ocfs2_alloc_context *data_ac = NULL;
 	struct ocfs2_extent_tree et;
 
+	mlog(0, "reflink xattr buckets %llu len %u\n",
+	     (unsigned long long)blkno, len);
+
 	ocfs2_init_xattr_tree_extent_tree(&et,
 					  INODE_CACHE(args->reflink->new_inode),
 					  args->new_blk_bh);
@@ -6930,32 +7004,12 @@ static int ocfs2_reflink_xattr_rec(struct inode *inode,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	ret = ocfs2_claim_clusters(handle, data_ac,
-				   len, &p_cluster, &num_clusters);
-	if (ret) {
-		mlog_errno(ret);
-		goto out_commit;
-	}
-
-	new_blkno = ocfs2_clusters_to_blocks(osb->sb, p_cluster);
-
-	mlog(0, "reflink xattr buckets %llu to %llu, len %u\n",
-	     (unsigned long long)blkno, (unsigned long long)new_blkno, len);
-	ret = ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle, blkno, new_blkno, len,
-					  meta_ac, data_ac, args);
-	if (ret) {
-		mlog_errno(ret);
-		goto out_commit;
-	}
-
-	mlog(0, "insert new xattr extent rec start %llu len %u to %u\n",
-	     (unsigned long long)new_blkno, len, cpos);
-	ret = ocfs2_insert_extent(handle, &et, cpos, new_blkno,
-				  len, 0, meta_ac);
+	ret = ocfs2_reflink_xattr_buckets(handle, inode, args, &et,
+					  meta_ac, data_ac,
+					  blkno, cpos, len);
 	if (ret)
 		mlog_errno(ret);
 
-out_commit:
 	ocfs2_commit_trans(osb, handle);
 
 out: