diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_cache.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_cache.c
index b92a02efad43..af25c19c88fa 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_cache.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/osc/osc_cache.c
@@ -2394,6 +2394,12 @@ int osc_flush_async_page(const struct lu_env *env, struct cl_io *io,
 		 * really sending the RPC. */
 	case OES_TRUNC:
 		/* race with truncate, page will be redirtied */
+	case OES_ACTIVE:
+		/* The extent is active so we need to abort and let the caller
+		 * re-dirty the page. If we continued on here, and we were the
+		 * one making the extent active, we could deadlock waiting for
+		 * the page writeback to clear but it won't because the extent
+		 * is active and won't be written out. */
 		GOTO(out, rc = -EAGAIN);
 	default:
 		break;