diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 85b8454d9608..61da9d0bb805 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -4534,7 +4534,7 @@ int btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata(struct inode *inode, u64 num_bytes)
 	unsigned nr_extents = 0;
 	int extra_reserve = 0;
 	enum btrfs_reserve_flush_enum flush = BTRFS_RESERVE_FLUSH_ALL;
-	int ret;
+	int ret = 0;
 	bool delalloc_lock = true;
 
 	/* If we are a free space inode we need to not flush since we will be in
@@ -4579,20 +4579,18 @@ int btrfs_delalloc_reserve_metadata(struct inode *inode, u64 num_bytes)
 	csum_bytes = BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes;
 	spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
 
-	if (root->fs_info->quota_enabled) {
+	if (root->fs_info->quota_enabled)
 		ret = btrfs_qgroup_reserve(root, num_bytes +
 					   nr_extents * root->leafsize);
-		if (ret) {
-			spin_lock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
-			calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, num_bytes, 0);
-			spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
-			if (delalloc_lock)
-				mutex_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->delalloc_mutex);
-			return ret;
-		}
-	}
 
-	ret = reserve_metadata_bytes(root, block_rsv, to_reserve, flush);
+	/*
+	 * ret != 0 here means the qgroup reservation failed, we go straight to
+	 * the shared error handling then.
+	 */
+	if (ret == 0)
+		ret = reserve_metadata_bytes(root, block_rsv,
+					     to_reserve, flush);
+
 	if (ret) {
 		u64 to_free = 0;
 		unsigned dropped;