diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
index 67ae5555..7294abc 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_iomap.c
@@ -860,8 +860,15 @@
 		 * set up a transaction to convert the range of extents
 		 * from unwritten to real. Do allocations in a loop until
 		 * we have covered the range passed in.
+		 *
+		 * Note that we open code the transaction allocation here
+		 * to pass KM_NOFS--we can't risk to recursing back into
+		 * the filesystem here as we might be asked to write out
+		 * the same inode that we complete here and might deadlock
+		 * on the iolock.
 		 */
-		tp = xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_STRAT_WRITE);
+		xfs_wait_for_freeze(mp, SB_FREEZE_TRANS);
+		tp = _xfs_trans_alloc(mp, XFS_TRANS_STRAT_WRITE, KM_NOFS);
 		tp->t_flags |= XFS_TRANS_RESERVE;
 		error = xfs_trans_reserve(tp, resblks,
 				XFS_WRITE_LOG_RES(mp), 0,