diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index a5e08a73653e..0dba09334a16 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -5580,9 +5580,33 @@ static int btrfs_log_all_parents(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 
 			dir_inode = btrfs_iget(fs_info->sb, &inode_key,
 					       root, NULL);
-			/* If parent inode was deleted, skip it. */
-			if (IS_ERR(dir_inode))
-				continue;
+			/*
+			 * If the parent inode was deleted, return an error to
+			 * fallback to a transaction commit. This is to prevent
+			 * getting an inode that was moved from one parent A to
+			 * a parent B, got its former parent A deleted and then
+			 * it got fsync'ed, from existing at both parents after
+			 * a log replay (and the old parent still existing).
+			 * Example:
+			 *
+			 * mkdir /mnt/A
+			 * mkdir /mnt/B
+			 * touch /mnt/B/bar
+			 * sync
+			 * mv /mnt/B/bar /mnt/A/bar
+			 * mv -T /mnt/A /mnt/B
+			 * fsync /mnt/B/bar
+			 * <power fail>
+			 *
+			 * If we ignore the old parent B which got deleted,
+			 * after a log replay we would have file bar linked
+			 * at both parents and the old parent B would still
+			 * exist.
+			 */
+			if (IS_ERR(dir_inode)) {
+				ret = PTR_ERR(dir_inode);
+				goto out;
+			}
 
 			if (ctx)
 				ctx->log_new_dentries = false;