diff --git a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
index 4ca809fa80ea..e01065696e9c 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/qgroup.c
@@ -1157,6 +1157,21 @@ out_add_root:
 		fs_info->qgroup_rescan_running = true;
 	        btrfs_queue_work(fs_info->qgroup_rescan_workers,
 	                         &fs_info->qgroup_rescan_work);
+	} else {
+		/*
+		 * We have set both BTRFS_FS_QUOTA_ENABLED and
+		 * BTRFS_QGROUP_STATUS_FLAG_ON, so we can only fail with
+		 * -EINPROGRESS. That can happen because someone started the
+		 * rescan worker by calling quota rescan ioctl before we
+		 * attempted to initialize the rescan worker. Failure due to
+		 * quotas disabled in the meanwhile is not possible, because
+		 * we are holding a write lock on fs_info->subvol_sem, which
+		 * is also acquired when disabling quotas.
+		 * Ignore such error, and any other error would need to undo
+		 * everything we did in the transaction we just committed.
+		 */
+		ASSERT(ret == -EINPROGRESS);
+		ret = 0;
 	}
 
 out_free_path: