diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index be1e3e881725..e950a2f50ac1 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -75,7 +75,8 @@ retry:
 		einode = f2fs_iget(inode->i_sb, le32_to_cpu(de->ino));
 		if (IS_ERR(einode)) {
 			WARN_ON(1);
-			if (PTR_ERR(einode) == -ENOENT)
+			err = PTR_ERR(einode);
+			if (err == -ENOENT)
 				err = -EEXIST;
 			goto out_unmap_put;
 		}