diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 77c84d6f1af6b..cbf37b2cf871e 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3206,7 +3206,10 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle,
 		ext4_ext_mark_unwritten(ex2);
 
 	err = ext4_ext_insert_extent(handle, inode, ppath, &newex, flags);
-	if (err == -ENOSPC && (EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT & split_flag)) {
+	if (err != -ENOSPC && err != -EDQUOT)
+		goto out;
+
+	if (EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT & split_flag) {
 		if (split_flag & (EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID1|EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID2)) {
 			if (split_flag & EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID1) {
 				err = ext4_ext_zeroout(inode, ex2);
@@ -3232,25 +3235,22 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle,
 					      ext4_ext_pblock(&orig_ex));
 		}
 
-		if (err)
-			goto fix_extent_len;
-		/* update the extent length and mark as initialized */
-		ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ee_len);
-		ext4_ext_try_to_merge(handle, inode, path, ex);
-		err = ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + path->p_depth);
-		if (err)
-			goto fix_extent_len;
-
-		/* update extent status tree */
-		err = ext4_zeroout_es(inode, &zero_ex);
-
-		goto out;
-	} else if (err)
-		goto fix_extent_len;
-
-out:
-	ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path);
-	return err;
+		if (!err) {
+			/* update the extent length and mark as initialized */
+			ex->ee_len = cpu_to_le16(ee_len);
+			ext4_ext_try_to_merge(handle, inode, path, ex);
+			err = ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + path->p_depth);
+			if (!err)
+				/* update extent status tree */
+				err = ext4_zeroout_es(inode, &zero_ex);
+			/* If we failed at this point, we don't know in which
+			 * state the extent tree exactly is so don't try to fix
+			 * length of the original extent as it may do even more
+			 * damage.
+			 */
+			goto out;
+		}
+	}
 
 fix_extent_len:
 	ex->ee_len = orig_ex.ee_len;
@@ -3260,6 +3260,9 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle,
 	 */
 	ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + path->p_depth);
 	return err;
+out:
+	ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path);
+	return err;
 }
 
 /*