diff --git a/block/qcow2-cluster.c b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
index 996b3314f4..25e38daa78 100644
--- a/block/qcow2-cluster.c
+++ b/block/qcow2-cluster.c
@@ -1709,9 +1709,6 @@ static int handle_alloc(BlockDriverState *bs, uint64_t guest_offset,
 
 out:
     qcow2_cache_put(s->l2_table_cache, (void **) &l2_slice);
-    if (ret < 0 && *m && (*m)->nb_clusters > 0) {
-        QLIST_REMOVE(*m, next_in_flight);
-    }
     return ret;
 }
 
diff --git a/block/qcow2.c b/block/qcow2.c
index da56b1a4df..54a7d2f475 100644
--- a/block/qcow2.c
+++ b/block/qcow2.c
@@ -2112,9 +2112,7 @@ static coroutine_fn int qcow2_handle_l2meta(BlockDriverState *bs,
         }
 
         /* Take the request off the list of running requests */
-        if (l2meta->nb_clusters != 0) {
-            QLIST_REMOVE(l2meta, next_in_flight);
-        }
+        QLIST_REMOVE(l2meta, next_in_flight);
 
         qemu_co_queue_restart_all(&l2meta->dependent_requests);
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/305 b/tests/qemu-iotests/305
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..6de3180c17
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/305
@@ -0,0 +1,75 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+#
+# Test the handling of errors in write requests with multiple allocations
+#
+# Copyright (C) 2020 Igalia, S.L.
+# Author: Alberto Garcia <berto@igalia.com>
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+#
+
+# creator
+owner=berto@igalia.com
+
+seq=`basename $0`
+echo "QA output created by $seq"
+
+status=1    # failure is the default!
+
+_cleanup()
+{
+    _cleanup_test_img
+}
+trap "_cleanup; exit \$status" 0 1 2 3 15
+
+# get standard environment, filters and checks
+. ./common.rc
+. ./common.filter
+
+_supported_fmt qcow2
+_supported_proto file
+_supported_os Linux
+_unsupported_imgopts cluster_size refcount_bits extended_l2
+
+refcount_table_offset=$((0x400))
+
+echo '### Create the image'
+_make_test_img -o refcount_bits=64,cluster_size=1k 1M
+
+# The reference counts of the clusters for the first 123k of this
+# write request are stored in the first refcount block. The last
+# cluster (guest offset 123k) is referenced in the second refcount
+# block.
+echo '### Fill the first refcount block and one data cluster from the second'
+$QEMU_IO -c 'write 0 124k' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo '### Discard two of the last data clusters, leave one in the middle'
+$QEMU_IO -c 'discard 121k 1k' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+$QEMU_IO -c 'discard 123k 1k' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+echo '### Corrupt the offset of the second refcount block'
+poke_file "$TEST_IMG" $(($refcount_table_offset+14)) "\x06"
+
+# This tries to allocate the two clusters discarded earlier (guest
+# offsets 121k and 123k). Their reference counts are in the first and
+# second refcount blocks respectively, but only the first one can be
+# allocated correctly because the second entry of the refcount table
+# is corrupted.
+echo '### Try to allocate the discarded clusters again'
+$QEMU_IO -c 'write 121k 3k' "$TEST_IMG" | _filter_qemu_io
+
+# success, all done
+echo "*** done"
+rm -f $seq.full
+status=0
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/305.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/305.out
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..538019e726
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/305.out
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+QA output created by 305
+### Create the image
+Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=1048576
+### Fill the first refcount block and one data cluster from the second
+wrote 126976/126976 bytes at offset 0
+124 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+### Discard two of the last data clusters, leave one in the middle
+discard 1024/1024 bytes at offset 123904
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+discard 1024/1024 bytes at offset 125952
+1 KiB, X ops; XX:XX:XX.X (XXX YYY/sec and XXX ops/sec)
+### Corrupt the offset of the second refcount block
+### Try to allocate the discarded clusters again
+qcow2: Marking image as corrupt: Refblock offset 0x20600 unaligned (reftable index: 0x1); further corruption events will be suppressed
+write failed: Input/output error
+*** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/group b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
index 5cad015231..ff59cfd2d4 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/group
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/group
@@ -313,3 +313,4 @@
 302 quick
 303 rw quick
 304 rw quick
+305 rw quick
