diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index 04ece8fab921..219e26fa9069 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -712,6 +712,35 @@ static int create_snapshot(struct btrfs_root *root, struct inode *dir,
 	if (ret)
 		goto fail;
 
+	/*
+	 * If orphan cleanup did remove any orphans, it means the tree was
+	 * modified and therefore the commit root is not the same as the
+	 * current root anymore. This is a problem, because send uses the
+	 * commit root and therefore can see inode items that don't exist
+	 * in the current root anymore, and for example make calls to
+	 * btrfs_iget, which will do tree lookups based on the current root
+	 * and not on the commit root. Those lookups will fail, returning a
+	 * -ESTALE error, and making send fail with that error. So make sure
+	 * a send does not see any orphans we have just removed, and that it
+	 * will see the same inodes regardless of whether a transaction
+	 * commit happened before it started (meaning that the commit root
+	 * will be the same as the current root) or not.
+	 */
+	if (readonly && pending_snapshot->snap->node !=
+	    pending_snapshot->snap->commit_root) {
+		trans = btrfs_join_transaction(pending_snapshot->snap);
+		if (IS_ERR(trans) && PTR_ERR(trans) != -ENOENT) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(trans);
+			goto fail;
+		}
+		if (!IS_ERR(trans)) {
+			ret = btrfs_commit_transaction(trans,
+						       pending_snapshot->snap);
+			if (ret)
+				goto fail;
+		}
+	}
+
 	inode = btrfs_lookup_dentry(dentry->d_parent->d_inode, dentry);
 	if (IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(inode);