diff --git a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
index 5edd07e0232d..e1c5c2114edf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/block-group.c
@@ -123,7 +123,16 @@ void btrfs_put_block_group(struct btrfs_block_group *cache)
 {
 	if (refcount_dec_and_test(&cache->refs)) {
 		WARN_ON(cache->pinned > 0);
-		WARN_ON(cache->reserved > 0);
+		/*
+		 * If there was a failure to cleanup a log tree, very likely due
+		 * to an IO failure on a writeback attempt of one or more of its
+		 * extent buffers, we could not do proper (and cheap) unaccounting
+		 * of their reserved space, so don't warn on reserved > 0 in that
+		 * case.
+		 */
+		if (!(cache->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_METADATA) ||
+		    !BTRFS_FS_LOG_CLEANUP_ERROR(cache->fs_info))
+			WARN_ON(cache->reserved > 0);
 
 		/*
 		 * A block_group shouldn't be on the discard_list anymore.
@@ -3888,9 +3897,22 @@ int btrfs_free_block_groups(struct btrfs_fs_info *info)
 		 * important and indicates a real bug if this happens.
 		 */
 		if (WARN_ON(space_info->bytes_pinned > 0 ||
-			    space_info->bytes_reserved > 0 ||
 			    space_info->bytes_may_use > 0))
 			btrfs_dump_space_info(info, space_info, 0, 0);
+
+		/*
+		 * If there was a failure to cleanup a log tree, very likely due
+		 * to an IO failure on a writeback attempt of one or more of its
+		 * extent buffers, we could not do proper (and cheap) unaccounting
+		 * of their reserved space, so don't warn on bytes_reserved > 0 in
+		 * that case.
+		 */
+		if (!(space_info->flags & BTRFS_BLOCK_GROUP_METADATA) ||
+		    !BTRFS_FS_LOG_CLEANUP_ERROR(info)) {
+			if (WARN_ON(space_info->bytes_reserved > 0))
+				btrfs_dump_space_info(info, space_info, 0, 0);
+		}
+
 		WARN_ON(space_info->reclaim_size > 0);
 		list_del(&space_info->list);
 		btrfs_sysfs_remove_space_info(space_info);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
index e89f814cc8f5..21c44846b002 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.h
@@ -142,6 +142,9 @@ enum {
 	BTRFS_FS_STATE_DEV_REPLACING,
 	/* The btrfs_fs_info created for self-tests */
 	BTRFS_FS_STATE_DUMMY_FS_INFO,
+
+	/* Indicates there was an error cleaning up a log tree. */
+	BTRFS_FS_STATE_LOG_CLEANUP_ERROR,
 };
 
 #define BTRFS_BACKREF_REV_MAX		256
@@ -3578,6 +3581,10 @@ do {								\
 			  (errno), fmt, ##args);		\
 } while (0)
 
+#define BTRFS_FS_LOG_CLEANUP_ERROR(fs_info)				\
+	(unlikely(test_bit(BTRFS_FS_STATE_LOG_CLEANUP_ERROR,		\
+			   &(fs_info)->fs_state)))
+
 __printf(5, 6)
 __cold
 void __btrfs_panic(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, const char *function,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 8ef65073ce8c..e90d80a8a9e3 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -3423,6 +3423,29 @@ static void free_log_tree(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	if (log->node) {
 		ret = walk_log_tree(trans, log, &wc);
 		if (ret) {
+			/*
+			 * We weren't able to traverse the entire log tree, the
+			 * typical scenario is getting an -EIO when reading an
+			 * extent buffer of the tree, due to a previous writeback
+			 * failure of it.
+			 */
+			set_bit(BTRFS_FS_STATE_LOG_CLEANUP_ERROR,
+				&log->fs_info->fs_state);
+
+			/*
+			 * Some extent buffers of the log tree may still be dirty
+			 * and not yet written back to storage, because we may
+			 * have updates to a log tree without syncing a log tree,
+			 * such as during rename and link operations. So flush
+			 * them out and wait for their writeback to complete, so
+			 * that we properly cleanup their state and pages.
+			 */
+			btrfs_write_marked_extents(log->fs_info,
+						   &log->dirty_log_pages,
+						   EXTENT_DIRTY | EXTENT_NEW);
+			btrfs_wait_tree_log_extents(log,
+						    EXTENT_DIRTY | EXTENT_NEW);
+
 			if (trans)
 				btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
 			else