diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_format.h b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_format.h
index 8bd00da6d2a4..2f46ef3800aa 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_format.h
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_log_format.h
@@ -414,7 +414,16 @@ struct xfs_log_dinode {
 	/* start of the extended dinode, writable fields */
 	uint32_t	di_crc;		/* CRC of the inode */
 	uint64_t	di_changecount;	/* number of attribute changes */
-	xfs_lsn_t	di_lsn;		/* flush sequence */
+
+	/*
+	 * The LSN we write to this field during formatting is not a reflection
+	 * of the current on-disk LSN. It should never be used for recovery
+	 * sequencing, nor should it be recovered into the on-disk inode at all.
+	 * See xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2() and xfs_log_dinode_to_disk()
+	 * for details.
+	 */
+	xfs_lsn_t	di_lsn;
+
 	uint64_t	di_flags2;	/* more random flags */
 	uint32_t	di_cowextsize;	/* basic cow extent size for file */
 	uint8_t		di_pad2[12];	/* more padding for future expansion */
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c
index cb44f7653f03..538724f9f85c 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode_item_recover.c
@@ -145,7 +145,8 @@ xfs_log_dinode_to_disk_ts(
 STATIC void
 xfs_log_dinode_to_disk(
 	struct xfs_log_dinode	*from,
-	struct xfs_dinode	*to)
+	struct xfs_dinode	*to,
+	xfs_lsn_t		lsn)
 {
 	to->di_magic = cpu_to_be16(from->di_magic);
 	to->di_mode = cpu_to_be16(from->di_mode);
@@ -182,7 +183,7 @@ xfs_log_dinode_to_disk(
 		to->di_flags2 = cpu_to_be64(from->di_flags2);
 		to->di_cowextsize = cpu_to_be32(from->di_cowextsize);
 		to->di_ino = cpu_to_be64(from->di_ino);
-		to->di_lsn = cpu_to_be64(from->di_lsn);
+		to->di_lsn = cpu_to_be64(lsn);
 		memcpy(to->di_pad2, from->di_pad2, sizeof(to->di_pad2));
 		uuid_copy(&to->di_uuid, &from->di_uuid);
 		to->di_flushiter = 0;
@@ -261,16 +262,25 @@ xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2(
 	}
 
 	/*
-	 * If the inode has an LSN in it, recover the inode only if it's less
-	 * than the lsn of the transaction we are replaying. Note: we still
-	 * need to replay an owner change even though the inode is more recent
-	 * than the transaction as there is no guarantee that all the btree
-	 * blocks are more recent than this transaction, too.
+	 * If the inode has an LSN in it, recover the inode only if the on-disk
+	 * inode's LSN is older than the lsn of the transaction we are
+	 * replaying. We can have multiple checkpoints with the same start LSN,
+	 * so the current LSN being equal to the on-disk LSN doesn't necessarily
+	 * mean that the on-disk inode is more recent than the change being
+	 * replayed.
+	 *
+	 * We must check the current_lsn against the on-disk inode
+	 * here because the we can't trust the log dinode to contain a valid LSN
+	 * (see comment below before replaying the log dinode for details).
+	 *
+	 * Note: we still need to replay an owner change even though the inode
+	 * is more recent than the transaction as there is no guarantee that all
+	 * the btree blocks are more recent than this transaction, too.
 	 */
 	if (dip->di_version >= 3) {
 		xfs_lsn_t	lsn = be64_to_cpu(dip->di_lsn);
 
-		if (lsn && lsn != -1 && XFS_LSN_CMP(lsn, current_lsn) >= 0) {
+		if (lsn && lsn != -1 && XFS_LSN_CMP(lsn, current_lsn) > 0) {
 			trace_xfs_log_recover_inode_skip(log, in_f);
 			error = 0;
 			goto out_owner_change;
@@ -368,8 +378,17 @@ xlog_recover_inode_commit_pass2(
 		goto out_release;
 	}
 
-	/* recover the log dinode inode into the on disk inode */
-	xfs_log_dinode_to_disk(ldip, dip);
+	/*
+	 * Recover the log dinode inode into the on disk inode.
+	 *
+	 * The LSN in the log dinode is garbage - it can be zero or reflect
+	 * stale in-memory runtime state that isn't coherent with the changes
+	 * logged in this transaction or the changes written to the on-disk
+	 * inode.  Hence we write the current lSN into the inode because that
+	 * matches what xfs_iflush() would write inode the inode when flushing
+	 * the changes in this transaction.
+	 */
+	xfs_log_dinode_to_disk(ldip, dip, current_lsn);
 
 	fields = in_f->ilf_fields;
 	if (fields & XFS_ILOG_DEV)