diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index f58e03d1775d..8ed71b3b2546 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -1256,6 +1256,7 @@ static int cluster_pages_for_defrag(struct inode *inode,
 	u64 page_end;
 	u64 page_cnt;
 	u64 start = (u64)start_index << PAGE_SHIFT;
+	u64 search_start;
 	int ret;
 	int i;
 	int i_done;
@@ -1352,6 +1353,40 @@ again:
 
 	lock_extent_bits(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree,
 			 page_start, page_end - 1, &cached_state);
+
+	/*
+	 * When defragmenting we skip ranges that have holes or inline extents,
+	 * (check should_defrag_range()), to avoid unnecessary IO and wasting
+	 * space. At btrfs_defrag_file(), we check if a range should be defragged
+	 * before locking the inode and then, if it should, we trigger a sync
+	 * page cache readahead - we lock the inode only after that to avoid
+	 * blocking for too long other tasks that possibly want to operate on
+	 * other file ranges. But before we were able to get the inode lock,
+	 * some other task may have punched a hole in the range, or we may have
+	 * now an inline extent, in which case we should not defrag. So check
+	 * for that here, where we have the inode and the range locked, and bail
+	 * out if that happened.
+	 */
+	search_start = page_start;
+	while (search_start < page_end) {
+		struct extent_map *em;
+
+		em = btrfs_get_extent(BTRFS_I(inode), NULL, 0, search_start,
+				      page_end - search_start, 0);
+		if (IS_ERR(em)) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(em);
+			goto out_unlock_range;
+		}
+		if (em->block_start >= EXTENT_MAP_LAST_BYTE) {
+			free_extent_map(em);
+			/* Ok, 0 means we did not defrag anything */
+			ret = 0;
+			goto out_unlock_range;
+		}
+		search_start = extent_map_end(em);
+		free_extent_map(em);
+	}
+
 	clear_extent_bit(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree, page_start,
 			  page_end - 1, EXTENT_DELALLOC | EXTENT_DO_ACCOUNTING |
 			  EXTENT_DEFRAG, 0, 0, &cached_state);
@@ -1382,6 +1417,10 @@ again:
 	btrfs_delalloc_release_extents(BTRFS_I(inode), page_cnt << PAGE_SHIFT);
 	extent_changeset_free(data_reserved);
 	return i_done;
+
+out_unlock_range:
+	unlock_extent_cached(&BTRFS_I(inode)->io_tree,
+			     page_start, page_end - 1, &cached_state);
 out:
 	for (i = 0; i < i_done; i++) {
 		unlock_page(pages[i]);