diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
index 7c00b8bedfe3..09fd602507ef 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_fsops.c
@@ -534,6 +534,7 @@ xfs_fs_reserve_ag_blocks(
 	int			error = 0;
 	int			err2;
 
+	mp->m_finobt_nores = false;
 	for (agno = 0; agno < mp->m_sb.sb_agcount; agno++) {
 		pag = xfs_perag_get(mp, agno);
 		err2 = xfs_ag_resv_init(pag, NULL);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
index 207ee302b1bb..dce8114e3198 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_super.c
@@ -1561,6 +1561,13 @@ xfs_mount_alloc(
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_eofblocks_work, xfs_eofblocks_worker);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&mp->m_cowblocks_work, xfs_cowblocks_worker);
 	mp->m_kobj.kobject.kset = xfs_kset;
+	/*
+	 * We don't create the finobt per-ag space reservation until after log
+	 * recovery, so we must set this to true so that an ifree transaction
+	 * started during log recovery will not depend on space reservations
+	 * for finobt expansion.
+	 */
+	mp->m_finobt_nores = true;
 	return mp;
 }