diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index e5b0a027c213..6c6c15fdeef7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -3761,11 +3761,18 @@ void close_ctree(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 	invalidate_inode_pages2(fs_info->btree_inode->i_mapping);
 	btrfs_stop_all_workers(fs_info);
 
-	btrfs_free_block_groups(fs_info);
-
 	clear_bit(BTRFS_FS_OPEN, &fs_info->flags);
 	free_root_pointers(fs_info, true);
 
+	/*
+	 * We must free the block groups after dropping the fs_roots as we could
+	 * have had an IO error and have left over tree log blocks that aren't
+	 * cleaned up until the fs roots are freed.  This makes the block group
+	 * accounting appear to be wrong because there's pending reserved bytes,
+	 * so make sure we do the block group cleanup afterwards.
+	 */
+	btrfs_free_block_groups(fs_info);
+
 	iput(fs_info->btree_inode);
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_CHECK_INTEGRITY