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diff --git a/fs/inode.c b/fs/inode.c
index 9e192bea0630..c93500d84264 100644
--- a/fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/inode.c
@@ -529,7 +529,14 @@ void clear_inode(struct inode *inode)
*/
xa_lock_irq(&inode->i_data.i_pages);
BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrpages);
- BUG_ON(inode->i_data.nrexceptional);
+ /*
+ * Almost always, mapping_empty(&inode->i_data) here; but there are
+ * two known and long-standing ways in which nodes may get left behind
+ * (when deep radix-tree node allocation failed partway; or when THP
+ * collapse_file() failed). Until those two known cases are cleaned up,
+ * or a cleanup function is called here, do not BUG_ON(!mapping_empty),
+ * nor even WARN_ON(!mapping_empty).
+ */
xa_unlock_irq(&inode->i_data.i_pages);
BUG_ON(!list_empty(&inode->i_data.private_list));
BUG_ON(!(inode->i_state & I_FREEING));