* If the inodes csum_bytes is the same as the original
         * csum_bytes then we know we haven't raced with any free()ers
         * so we can just reduce our inodes csum bytes and carry on.
-        * Otherwise we have to do the normal free thing to account for
-        * the case that the free side didn't free up its reserve
-        * because of this outstanding reservation.
         */
-       if (BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes == csum_bytes)
+       if (BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes == csum_bytes) {
                calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, num_bytes, 0);
-       else
-               to_free = calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, num_bytes, 0);
+       } else {
+               u64 orig_csum_bytes = BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes;
+               u64 bytes;
+
+               /*
+                * This is tricky, but first we need to figure out how much we
+                * free'd from any free-ers that occured during this
+                * reservation, so we reset ->csum_bytes to the csum_bytes
+                * before we dropped our lock, and then call the free for the
+                * number of bytes that were freed while we were trying our
+                * reservation.
+                */
+               bytes = csum_bytes - BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes;
+               BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes = csum_bytes;
+               to_free = calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, bytes, 0);
+
+
+               /*
+                * Now we need to see how much we would have freed had we not
+                * been making this reservation and our ->csum_bytes were not
+                * artificially inflated.
+                */
+               BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes = csum_bytes - num_bytes;
+               bytes = csum_bytes - orig_csum_bytes;
+               bytes = calc_csum_metadata_size(inode, bytes, 0);
+
+               /*
+                * Now reset ->csum_bytes to what it should be.  If bytes is
+                * more than to_free then we would have free'd more space had we
+                * not had an artificially high ->csum_bytes, so we need to free
+                * the remainder.  If bytes is the same or less then we don't
+                * need to do anything, the other free-ers did the correct
+                * thing.
+                */
+               BTRFS_I(inode)->csum_bytes = orig_csum_bytes - num_bytes;
+               if (bytes > to_free)
+                       to_free = bytes - to_free;
+               else
+                       to_free = 0;
+       }
        spin_unlock(&BTRFS_I(inode)->lock);
        if (dropped)
                to_free += btrfs_calc_trans_metadata_size(root, dropped);