diff --git a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
index 4c6ba97299cd61b7977e866939e93886b8e5f2cc..d6cda0b2e92566ea8f7cff8b0c4b68823f330d4a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/relocation.c
@@ -4423,8 +4423,18 @@ int btrfs_reloc_cow_block(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 		WARN_ON(!first_cow && level == 0);
 
 		node = rc->backref_cache.path[level];
-		BUG_ON(node->bytenr != buf->start &&
-		       node->new_bytenr != buf->start);
+
+		/*
+		 * If node->bytenr != buf->start and node->new_bytenr !=
+		 * buf->start then we've got the wrong backref node for what we
+		 * expected to see here and the cache is incorrect.
+		 */
+		if (unlikely(node->bytenr != buf->start && node->new_bytenr != buf->start)) {
+			btrfs_err(fs_info,
+"bytenr %llu was found but our backref cache was expecting %llu or %llu",
+				  buf->start, node->bytenr, node->new_bytenr);
+			return -EUCLEAN;
+		}
 
 		btrfs_backref_drop_node_buffer(node);
 		atomic_inc(&cow->refs);