diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
index b57ab34fbf3c..c235170f3a07 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_log.c
@@ -749,9 +749,20 @@ xfs_log_mount_finish(
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * During the second phase of log recovery, we need iget and
+	 * iput to behave like they do for an active filesystem.
+	 * xfs_fs_drop_inode needs to be able to prevent the deletion
+	 * of inodes before we're done replaying log items on those
+	 * inodes.  Turn it off immediately after recovery finishes
+	 * so that we don't leak the quota inodes if subsequent mount
+	 * activities fail.
+	 */
+	mp->m_super->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
 	error = xlog_recover_finish(mp->m_log);
 	if (!error)
 		xfs_log_work_queue(mp);
+	mp->m_super->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE;
 
 	return error;
 }
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
index 13796f212f98..ab058c7dc598 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_mount.c
@@ -924,15 +924,6 @@ xfs_mountfs(
 		}
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * During the second phase of log recovery, we need iget and
-	 * iput to behave like they do for an active filesystem.
-	 * xfs_fs_drop_inode needs to be able to prevent the deletion
-	 * of inodes before we're done replaying log items on those
-	 * inodes.
-	 */
-	mp->m_super->s_flags |= MS_ACTIVE;
-
 	/*
 	 * Finish recovering the file system.  This part needed to be delayed
 	 * until after the root and real-time bitmap inodes were consistently
@@ -1008,7 +999,6 @@ xfs_mountfs(
  out_quota:
 	xfs_qm_unmount_quotas(mp);
  out_rtunmount:
-	mp->m_super->s_flags &= ~MS_ACTIVE;
 	xfs_rtunmount_inodes(mp);
  out_rele_rip:
 	IRELE(rip);