diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
index 37a28e2369b9..1372d3e5d90b 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent_io.c
@@ -4060,6 +4060,14 @@ retry:
 		 */
 		scanned = 1;
 		index = 0;
+
+		/*
+		 * If we're looping we could run into a page that is locked by a
+		 * writer and that writer could be waiting on writeback for a
+		 * page in our current bio, and thus deadlock, so flush the
+		 * write bio here.
+		 */
+		flush_write_bio(data);
 		goto retry;
 	}