diff --git a/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c b/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c
index 6b5c6f852cc2..767d3f765d07 100644
--- a/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c
+++ b/uts/common/fs/zfs/zfs_vnops.c
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 /*
  * Copyright (c) 2005, 2010, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * Copyright (c) 2013 by Delphix. All rights reserved.
- * Copyright 2013 Nexenta Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright 2014 Nexenta Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
  */
 
 /* Portions Copyright 2007 Jeremy Teo */
@@ -643,6 +643,16 @@ zfs_write(vnode_t *vp, uio_t *uio, int ioflag, cred_t *cr, caller_context_t *ct)
 	SA_ADD_BULK_ATTR(bulk, count, SA_ZPL_FLAGS(zfsvfs), NULL,
 	    &zp->z_pflags, 8);
 
+	/*
+	 * In a case vp->v_vfsp != zp->z_zfsvfs->z_vfs (e.g. snapshots) our
+	 * callers might not be able to detect properly that we are read-only,
+	 * so check it explicitly here.
+	 */
+	if (zfsvfs->z_vfs->vfs_flag & VFS_RDONLY) {
+		ZFS_EXIT(zfsvfs);
+		return (SET_ERROR(EROFS));
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * If immutable or not appending then return EPERM
 	 */
@@ -4750,6 +4760,16 @@ zfs_space(vnode_t *vp, int cmd, flock64_t *bfp, int flag,
 		return (SET_ERROR(EINVAL));
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * In a case vp->v_vfsp != zp->z_zfsvfs->z_vfs (e.g. snapshots) our
+	 * callers might not be able to detect properly that we are read-only,
+	 * so check it explicitly here.
+	 */
+	if (zfsvfs->z_vfs->vfs_flag & VFS_RDONLY) {
+		ZFS_EXIT(zfsvfs);
+		return (SET_ERROR(EROFS));
+	}
+
 	if (error = convoff(vp, bfp, 0, offset)) {
 		ZFS_EXIT(zfsvfs);
 		return (error);