diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 4cdfc6f8e6a9..cddd63b9103f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -3909,9 +3909,17 @@ static noinline int btrfs_clone_files(struct file *file, struct file *file_src,
 		goto out_unlock;
 	if (len == 0)
 		olen = len = src->i_size - off;
-	/* if we extend to eof, continue to block boundary */
-	if (off + len == src->i_size)
+	/*
+	 * If we extend to eof, continue to block boundary if and only if the
+	 * destination end offset matches the destination file's size, otherwise
+	 * we would be corrupting data by placing the eof block into the middle
+	 * of a file.
+	 */
+	if (off + len == src->i_size) {
+		if (!IS_ALIGNED(len, bs) && destoff + len < inode->i_size)
+			goto out_unlock;
 		len = ALIGN(src->i_size, bs) - off;
+	}
 
 	if (len == 0) {
 		ret = 0;