diff --git a/fs/ext4/indirect.c b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
index 36699a131168..602abae08387 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/indirect.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/indirect.c
@@ -331,11 +331,14 @@ static int ext4_alloc_branch(handle_t *handle,
 	for (i = 0; i <= indirect_blks; i++) {
 		if (i == indirect_blks) {
 			new_blocks[i] = ext4_mb_new_blocks(handle, ar, &err);
-		} else
+		} else {
 			ar->goal = new_blocks[i] = ext4_new_meta_blocks(handle,
 					ar->inode, ar->goal,
 					ar->flags & EXT4_MB_DELALLOC_RESERVED,
 					NULL, &err);
+			/* Simplify error cleanup... */
+			branch[i+1].bh = NULL;
+		}
 		if (err) {
 			i--;
 			goto failed;
@@ -377,18 +380,25 @@ static int ext4_alloc_branch(handle_t *handle,
 	}
 	return 0;
 failed:
+	if (i == indirect_blks) {
+		/* Free data blocks */
+		ext4_free_blocks(handle, ar->inode, NULL, new_blocks[i],
+				 ar->len, 0);
+		i--;
+	}
 	for (; i >= 0; i--) {
 		/*
 		 * We want to ext4_forget() only freshly allocated indirect
-		 * blocks.  Buffer for new_blocks[i-1] is at branch[i].bh and
-		 * buffer at branch[0].bh is indirect block / inode already
-		 * existing before ext4_alloc_branch() was called.
+		 * blocks. Buffer for new_blocks[i] is at branch[i+1].bh
+		 * (buffer at branch[0].bh is indirect block / inode already
+		 * existing before ext4_alloc_branch() was called). Also
+		 * because blocks are freshly allocated, we don't need to
+		 * revoke them which is why we don't set
+		 * EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_METADATA.
 		 */
-		if (i > 0 && i != indirect_blks && branch[i].bh)
-			ext4_forget(handle, 1, ar->inode, branch[i].bh,
-				    branch[i].bh->b_blocknr);
-		ext4_free_blocks(handle, ar->inode, NULL, new_blocks[i],
-				 (i == indirect_blks) ? ar->len : 1, 0);
+		ext4_free_blocks(handle, ar->inode, branch[i+1].bh,
+				 new_blocks[i], 1,
+				 branch[i+1].bh ? EXT4_FREE_BLOCKS_FORGET : 0);
 	}
 	return err;
 }