diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index a3d02613934a..f707d810c87d 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -649,8 +649,6 @@ skip:
 	}
 
 	clear_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_POR_DOING);
-	if (err)
-		set_ckpt_flags(sbi, CP_ERROR_FLAG);
 	mutex_unlock(&sbi->cp_mutex);
 
 	/* let's drop all the directory inodes for clean checkpoint */