diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index d96305e5cc93..f651a37c7e0a 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2986,7 +2986,10 @@ static int write_dev_supers(struct btrfs_device *device,
 		if (wait) {
 			bh = __find_get_block(device->bdev, bytenr / 4096,
 					      BTRFS_SUPER_INFO_SIZE);
-			BUG_ON(!bh);
+			if (!bh) {
+				errors++;
+				continue;
+			}
 			wait_on_buffer(bh);
 			if (!buffer_uptodate(bh))
 				errors++;
@@ -3013,6 +3016,13 @@ static int write_dev_supers(struct btrfs_device *device,
 			 */
 			bh = __getblk(device->bdev, bytenr / 4096,
 				      BTRFS_SUPER_INFO_SIZE);
+			if (!bh) {
+				printk(KERN_ERR "btrfs: couldn't get super "
+				       "buffer head for bytenr %Lu\n", bytenr);
+				errors++;
+				continue;
+			}
+
 			memcpy(bh->b_data, sb, BTRFS_SUPER_INFO_SIZE);
 
 			/* one reference for submit_bh */