diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
index 2ee43b6a4f09..539901fb5165 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
@@ -1014,9 +1014,26 @@ static noinline int __btrfs_cow_block(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	if ((root->root_key.objectid == BTRFS_TREE_RELOC_OBJECTID) && parent)
 		parent_start = parent->start;
 
+	/*
+	 * If we are COWing a node/leaf from the extent, chunk or device trees,
+	 * make sure that we do not finish block group creation of pending block
+	 * groups. We do this to avoid a deadlock.
+	 * COWing can result in allocation of a new chunk, and flushing pending
+	 * block groups (btrfs_create_pending_block_groups()) can be triggered
+	 * when finishing allocation of a new chunk. Creation of a pending block
+	 * group modifies the extent, chunk and device trees, therefore we could
+	 * deadlock with ourselves since we are holding a lock on an extent
+	 * buffer that btrfs_create_pending_block_groups() may try to COW later.
+	 */
+	if (root == fs_info->extent_root ||
+	    root == fs_info->chunk_root ||
+	    root == fs_info->dev_root)
+		trans->can_flush_pending_bgs = false;
+
 	cow = btrfs_alloc_tree_block(trans, root, parent_start,
 			root->root_key.objectid, &disk_key, level,
 			search_start, empty_size);
+	trans->can_flush_pending_bgs = true;
 	if (IS_ERR(cow))
 		return PTR_ERR(cow);
 
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index a4cd0221bc8d..b6d930356dd3 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -2954,7 +2954,6 @@ int btrfs_run_delayed_refs(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	struct btrfs_delayed_ref_head *head;
 	int ret;
 	int run_all = count == (unsigned long)-1;
-	bool can_flush_pending_bgs = trans->can_flush_pending_bgs;
 
 	/* We'll clean this up in btrfs_cleanup_transaction */
 	if (trans->aborted)
@@ -2971,7 +2970,6 @@ again:
 #ifdef SCRAMBLE_DELAYED_REFS
 	delayed_refs->run_delayed_start = find_middle(&delayed_refs->root);
 #endif
-	trans->can_flush_pending_bgs = false;
 	ret = __btrfs_run_delayed_refs(trans, count);
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		btrfs_abort_transaction(trans, ret);
@@ -3002,7 +3000,6 @@ again:
 		goto again;
 	}
 out:
-	trans->can_flush_pending_bgs = can_flush_pending_bgs;
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -4589,11 +4586,9 @@ out:
 	 * the block groups that were made dirty during the lifetime of the
 	 * transaction.
 	 */
-	if (trans->can_flush_pending_bgs &&
-	    trans->chunk_bytes_reserved >= (u64)SZ_2M) {
+	if (trans->chunk_bytes_reserved >= (u64)SZ_2M)
 		btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(trans);
-		btrfs_trans_release_chunk_metadata(trans);
-	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -10132,9 +10127,10 @@ void btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans)
 	struct btrfs_block_group_item item;
 	struct btrfs_key key;
 	int ret = 0;
-	bool can_flush_pending_bgs = trans->can_flush_pending_bgs;
 
-	trans->can_flush_pending_bgs = false;
+	if (!trans->can_flush_pending_bgs)
+		return;
+
 	while (!list_empty(&trans->new_bgs)) {
 		block_group = list_first_entry(&trans->new_bgs,
 					       struct btrfs_block_group_cache,
@@ -10159,7 +10155,7 @@ void btrfs_create_pending_block_groups(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans)
 next:
 		list_del_init(&block_group->bg_list);
 	}
-	trans->can_flush_pending_bgs = can_flush_pending_bgs;
+	btrfs_trans_release_chunk_metadata(trans);
 }
 
 int btrfs_make_block_group(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, u64 bytes_used,