diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/quotacheck.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/quotacheck.c
index c77eb2de8df7..dc4033b91e44 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/quotacheck.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/quotacheck.c
@@ -398,10 +398,13 @@ xqcheck_collect_inode(
 	bool			isreg = S_ISREG(VFS_I(ip)->i_mode);
 	int			error = 0;
 
-	if (xfs_is_quota_inode(&tp->t_mountp->m_sb, ip->i_ino)) {
+	if (xfs_is_metadir_inode(ip) ||
+	    xfs_is_quota_inode(&tp->t_mountp->m_sb, ip->i_ino)) {
 		/*
 		 * Quota files are never counted towards quota, so we do not
-		 * need to take the lock.
+		 * need to take the lock.  Files do not switch between the
+		 * metadata and regular directory trees without a reallocation,
+		 * so we do not need to ILOCK them either.
 		 */
 		xchk_iscan_mark_visited(&xqc->iscan, ip);
 		return 0;