diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
index dadf9bf30f08..1d22c5c05b50 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ioctl.c
@@ -672,6 +672,13 @@ static noinline int create_subvol(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Subvolumes have orphans cleaned on first dentry lookup. A new
+	 * subvolume cannot have any orphans, so we should set the bit before we
+	 * add the subvolume dentry to the dentry cache, so that it is in the
+	 * same state as a subvolume after first lookup.
+	 */
+	set_bit(BTRFS_ROOT_ORPHAN_CLEANUP, &new_root->state);
 	d_instantiate_new(dentry, new_inode_args.inode);
 	new_inode_args.inode = NULL;