diff --git a/fs/ext4/extents.c b/fs/ext4/extents.c
index 31d5061f14086de922c69b87e1c2e6a232a78fb6..32746616faf7b3c2da8092741828a1c40b30ede9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/extents.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/extents.c
@@ -3242,6 +3242,25 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Update path is required because previous ext4_ext_insert_extent()
+	 * may have freed or reallocated the path. Using EXT4_EX_NOFAIL
+	 * guarantees that ext4_find_extent() will not return -ENOMEM,
+	 * otherwise -ENOMEM will cause a retry in do_writepages(), and a
+	 * WARN_ON may be triggered in ext4_da_update_reserve_space() due to
+	 * an incorrect ee_len causing the i_reserved_data_blocks exception.
+	 */
+	path = ext4_find_extent(inode, ee_block, ppath,
+				flags | EXT4_EX_NOFAIL);
+	if (IS_ERR(path)) {
+		EXT4_ERROR_INODE(inode, "Failed split extent on %u, err %ld",
+				 split, PTR_ERR(path));
+		return PTR_ERR(path);
+	}
+	depth = ext_depth(inode);
+	ex = path[depth].p_ext;
+	*ppath = path;
+
 	if (EXT4_EXT_MAY_ZEROOUT & split_flag) {
 		if (split_flag & (EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID1|EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID2)) {
 			if (split_flag & EXT4_EXT_DATA_VALID1) {
@@ -3294,7 +3313,7 @@ static int ext4_split_extent_at(handle_t *handle,
 	ext4_ext_dirty(handle, inode, path + path->p_depth);
 	return err;
 out:
-	ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, path);
+	ext4_ext_show_leaf(inode, *ppath);
 	return err;
 }