diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
index 6bd916bd35e2..838566b85622 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_trans_resv.c
@@ -490,10 +490,9 @@ xfs_calc_symlink_reservation(
 /*
  * In freeing an inode we can modify:
  *    the inode being freed: inode size
- *    the super block free inode counter: sector size
- *    the agi hash list and counters: sector size
- *    the inode btree entry: block size
- *    the on disk inode before ours in the agi hash list: inode cluster size
+ *    the super block free inode counter, AGF and AGFL: sector size
+ *    the on disk inode (agi unlinked list removal)
+ *    the inode chunk is marked stale (headers only)
  *    the inode btree: max depth * blocksize
  *    the allocation btrees: 2 trees * (max depth - 1) * block size
  *    the finobt (record insertion, removal or modification)
@@ -504,12 +503,10 @@ xfs_calc_ifree_reservation(
 {
 	return XFS_DQUOT_LOGRES(mp) +
 		xfs_calc_inode_res(mp, 1) +
-		xfs_calc_buf_res(1, mp->m_sb.sb_sectsize) +
-		xfs_calc_buf_res(1, XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, 1)) +
+		xfs_calc_buf_res(3, mp->m_sb.sb_sectsize) +
 		xfs_calc_iunlink_remove_reservation(mp) +
-		xfs_calc_buf_res(1, 0) +
-		xfs_calc_buf_res(2 + mp->m_ialloc_blks +
-				 mp->m_in_maxlevels, 0) +
+		xfs_calc_buf_res(mp->m_ialloc_blks, 0) +
+		xfs_calc_buf_res(mp->m_in_maxlevels, XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, 1)) +
 		xfs_calc_buf_res(xfs_allocfree_log_count(mp, 1),
 				 XFS_FSB_TO_B(mp, 1)) +
 		xfs_calc_finobt_res(mp, 0, 1);