diff --git a/fs/btrfs/reflink.c b/fs/btrfs/reflink.c
index c4f87df5328337..eeb66e797e0bf8 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/reflink.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/reflink.c
@@ -281,6 +281,11 @@ static int clone_copy_inline_extent(struct inode *dst,
 	ret = btrfs_inode_set_file_extent_range(BTRFS_I(dst), 0, aligned_end);
 out:
 	if (!ret && !trans) {
+		/*
+		 * Release path before starting a new transaction so we don't
+		 * hold locks that would confuse lockdep.
+		 */
+		btrfs_release_path(path);
 		/*
 		 * No transaction here means we copied the inline extent into a
 		 * page of the destination inode.