diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.c b/fs/btrfs/send.c
index 614da0d..68da757 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.c
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
 	u32 send_max_size;
 	u64 total_send_size;
 	u64 cmd_send_size[BTRFS_SEND_C_MAX + 1];
+	u64 flags;	/* 'flags' member of btrfs_ioctl_send_args is u64 */
 
 	struct vfsmount *mnt;
 
@@ -3709,6 +3710,39 @@
 	return ret;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Send an update extent command to user space.
+ */
+static int send_update_extent(struct send_ctx *sctx,
+			      u64 offset, u32 len)
+{
+	int ret = 0;
+	struct fs_path *p;
+
+	p = fs_path_alloc(sctx);
+	if (!p)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
+	ret = begin_cmd(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_C_UPDATE_EXTENT);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	ret = get_cur_path(sctx, sctx->cur_ino, sctx->cur_inode_gen, p);
+	if (ret < 0)
+		goto out;
+
+	TLV_PUT_PATH(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_PATH, p);
+	TLV_PUT_U64(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_FILE_OFFSET, offset);
+	TLV_PUT_U64(sctx, BTRFS_SEND_A_SIZE, len);
+
+	ret = send_cmd(sctx);
+
+tlv_put_failure:
+out:
+	fs_path_free(sctx, p);
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int send_write_or_clone(struct send_ctx *sctx,
 			       struct btrfs_path *path,
 			       struct btrfs_key *key,
@@ -3744,7 +3778,11 @@
 		goto out;
 	}
 
-	if (!clone_root) {
+	if (clone_root) {
+		ret = send_clone(sctx, offset, len, clone_root);
+	} else if (sctx->flags & BTRFS_SEND_FLAG_NO_FILE_DATA) {
+		ret = send_update_extent(sctx, offset, len);
+	} else {
 		while (pos < len) {
 			l = len - pos;
 			if (l > BTRFS_SEND_READ_SIZE)
@@ -3757,10 +3795,7 @@
 			pos += ret;
 		}
 		ret = 0;
-	} else {
-		ret = send_clone(sctx, offset, len, clone_root);
 	}
-
 out:
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -4560,6 +4595,11 @@
 		goto out;
 	}
 
+	if (arg->flags & ~BTRFS_SEND_FLAG_NO_FILE_DATA) {
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out;
+	}
+
 	sctx = kzalloc(sizeof(struct send_ctx), GFP_NOFS);
 	if (!sctx) {
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
@@ -4571,6 +4611,8 @@
 	INIT_RADIX_TREE(&sctx->name_cache, GFP_NOFS);
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&sctx->name_cache_list);
 
+	sctx->flags = arg->flags;
+
 	sctx->send_filp = fget(arg->send_fd);
 	if (IS_ERR(sctx->send_filp)) {
 		ret = PTR_ERR(sctx->send_filp);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/send.h b/fs/btrfs/send.h
index 1bf4f32..8bb18f7 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/send.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/send.h
@@ -86,6 +86,7 @@
 	BTRFS_SEND_C_UTIMES,
 
 	BTRFS_SEND_C_END,
+	BTRFS_SEND_C_UPDATE_EXTENT,
 	__BTRFS_SEND_C_MAX,
 };
 #define BTRFS_SEND_C_MAX (__BTRFS_SEND_C_MAX - 1)