diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index de7d3e50971c..b75b4abaa4a5 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -5007,6 +5007,15 @@ static int send_hole(struct send_ctx *sctx, u64 end)
 	u64 len;
 	int ret = 0;
 
+	/*
+	 * A hole that starts at EOF or beyond it. Since we do not yet support
+	 * fallocate (for extent preallocation and hole punching), sending a
+	 * write of zeroes starting at EOF or beyond would later require issuing
+	 * a truncate operation which would undo the write and achieve nothing.
+	 */
+	if (offset >= sctx->cur_inode_size)
+		return 0;
+
 	if (sctx->flags & BTRFS_SEND_FLAG_NO_FILE_DATA)
 		return send_update_extent(sctx, offset, end - offset);