diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c
index 2445fe2860ff..6c16d9530cca 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/attr.c
@@ -200,6 +200,14 @@ xchk_xattr_listent(
 		goto fail_xref;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Local xattr values are stored in the attr leaf block, so we don't
+	 * need to retrieve the value from a remote block to detect corruption
+	 * problems.
+	 */
+	if (flags & XFS_ATTR_LOCAL)
+		goto fail_xref;
+
 	/*
 	 * Try to allocate enough memory to extrat the attr value.  If that
 	 * doesn't work, we overload the seen_enough variable to convey