diff --git a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
index 43fdb2992956..6858a05606dd 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/delayed-inode.c
@@ -474,6 +474,9 @@ static void __btrfs_remove_delayed_item(struct btrfs_delayed_item *delayed_item)
 	struct rb_root_cached *root;
 	struct btrfs_delayed_root *delayed_root;
 
+	/* Not associated with any delayed_node */
+	if (!delayed_item->delayed_node)
+		return;
 	delayed_root = delayed_item->delayed_node->root->fs_info->delayed_root;
 
 	BUG_ON(!delayed_root);
@@ -1525,7 +1528,12 @@ int btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	 * we have reserved enough space when we start a new transaction,
 	 * so reserving metadata failure is impossible.
 	 */
-	BUG_ON(ret);
+	if (ret < 0) {
+		btrfs_err(trans->fs_info,
+"metadata reservation failed for delayed dir item deltiona, should have been reserved");
+		btrfs_release_delayed_item(item);
+		goto end;
+	}
 
 	mutex_lock(&node->mutex);
 	ret = __btrfs_add_delayed_deletion_item(node, item);
@@ -1534,7 +1542,8 @@ int btrfs_delete_delayed_dir_index(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 			  "err add delayed dir index item(index: %llu) into the deletion tree of the delayed node(root id: %llu, inode id: %llu, errno: %d)",
 			  index, node->root->root_key.objectid,
 			  node->inode_id, ret);
-		BUG();
+		btrfs_delayed_item_release_metadata(dir->root, item);
+		btrfs_release_delayed_item(item);
 	}
 	mutex_unlock(&node->mutex);
 end: