diff --git a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
index 4a04659fded7..6c8297bcfeb7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/tree-log.c
@@ -3322,6 +3322,30 @@ int btrfs_free_log_root_tree(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Check if an inode was logged in the current transaction. We can't always rely
+ * on an inode's logged_trans value, because it's an in-memory only field and
+ * therefore not persisted. This means that its value is lost if the inode gets
+ * evicted and loaded again from disk (in which case it has a value of 0, and
+ * certainly it is smaller then any possible transaction ID), when that happens
+ * the full_sync flag is set in the inode's runtime flags, so on that case we
+ * assume eviction happened and ignore the logged_trans value, assuming the
+ * worst case, that the inode was logged before in the current transaction.
+ */
+static bool inode_logged(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
+			 struct btrfs_inode *inode)
+{
+	if (inode->logged_trans == trans->transid)
+		return true;
+
+	if (inode->last_trans == trans->transid &&
+	    test_bit(BTRFS_INODE_NEEDS_FULL_SYNC, &inode->runtime_flags) &&
+	    !test_bit(BTRFS_FS_LOG_RECOVERING, &trans->fs_info->flags))
+		return true;
+
+	return false;
+}
+
 /*
  * If both a file and directory are logged, and unlinks or renames are
  * mixed in, we have a few interesting corners:
@@ -3356,7 +3380,7 @@ int btrfs_del_dir_entries_in_log(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	int bytes_del = 0;
 	u64 dir_ino = btrfs_ino(dir);
 
-	if (dir->logged_trans < trans->transid)
+	if (!inode_logged(trans, dir))
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = join_running_log_trans(root);
@@ -3460,7 +3484,7 @@ int btrfs_del_inode_ref_in_log(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	u64 index;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (inode->logged_trans < trans->transid)
+	if (!inode_logged(trans, inode))
 		return 0;
 
 	ret = join_running_log_trans(root);