diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 6266a706bff7d..044d584c3467c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -7961,6 +7961,34 @@ static int btrfs_dio_iomap_begin(struct inode *inode, loff_t start,
 	}
 
 	len = min(len, em->len - (start - em->start));
+
+	/*
+	 * If we have a NOWAIT request and the range contains multiple extents
+	 * (or a mix of extents and holes), then we return -EAGAIN to make the
+	 * caller fallback to a context where it can do a blocking (without
+	 * NOWAIT) request. This way we avoid doing partial IO and returning
+	 * success to the caller, which is not optimal for writes and for reads
+	 * it can result in unexpected behaviour for an application.
+	 *
+	 * When doing a read, because we use IOMAP_DIO_PARTIAL when calling
+	 * iomap_dio_rw(), we can end up returning less data then what the caller
+	 * asked for, resulting in an unexpected, and incorrect, short read.
+	 * That is, the caller asked to read N bytes and we return less than that,
+	 * which is wrong unless we are crossing EOF. This happens if we get a
+	 * page fault error when trying to fault in pages for the buffer that is
+	 * associated to the struct iov_iter passed to iomap_dio_rw(), and we
+	 * have previously submitted bios for other extents in the range, in
+	 * which case iomap_dio_rw() may return us EIOCBQUEUED if not all of
+	 * those bios have completed by the time we get the page fault error,
+	 * which we return back to our caller - we should only return EIOCBQUEUED
+	 * after we have submitted bios for all the extents in the range.
+	 */
+	if ((flags & IOMAP_NOWAIT) && len < length) {
+		free_extent_map(em);
+		ret = -EAGAIN;
+		goto unlock_err;
+	}
+
 	if (write) {
 		ret = btrfs_get_blocks_direct_write(&em, inode, dio_data,
 						    start, len);