file_offset, &stack_fi,
                                                  true, qgroup_released);
                if (ret)
-                       return ERR_PTR(ret);
+                       goto free_qgroup;
                return trans;
        }
 
        extent_info.insertions = 0;
 
        path = btrfs_alloc_path();
-       if (!path)
-               return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+       if (!path) {
+               ret = -ENOMEM;
+               goto free_qgroup;
+       }
 
        ret = btrfs_replace_file_extents(&inode->vfs_inode, path, file_offset,
                                     file_offset + len - 1, &extent_info,
                                     &trans);
        btrfs_free_path(path);
        if (ret)
-               return ERR_PTR(ret);
-
+               goto free_qgroup;
        return trans;
+
+free_qgroup:
+       /*
+        * We have released qgroup data range at the beginning of the function,
+        * and normally qgroup_released bytes will be freed when committing
+        * transaction.
+        * But if we error out early, we have to free what we have released
+        * or we leak qgroup data reservation.
+        */
+       btrfs_qgroup_free_refroot(inode->root->fs_info,
+                       inode->root->root_key.objectid, qgroup_released,
+                       BTRFS_QGROUP_RSV_DATA);
+       return ERR_PTR(ret);
 }
 
 static int __btrfs_prealloc_file_range(struct inode *inode, int mode,