diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 12a4f3f44a2f..eca9aea9834e 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -800,13 +800,17 @@ int f2fs_sync_fs(struct super_block *sb, int sync)
 
 static int f2fs_freeze(struct super_block *sb)
 {
-	int err;
-
 	if (f2fs_readonly(sb))
 		return 0;
 
-	err = f2fs_sync_fs(sb, 1);
-	return err;
+	/* IO error happened before */
+	if (unlikely(f2fs_cp_error(F2FS_SB(sb))))
+		return -EIO;
+
+	/* must be clean, since sync_filesystem() was already called */
+	if (is_sbi_flag_set(F2FS_SB(sb), SBI_IS_DIRTY))
+		return -EINVAL;
+	return 0;
 }
 
 static int f2fs_unfreeze(struct super_block *sb)
@@ -2152,3 +2156,4 @@ module_exit(exit_f2fs_fs)
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Samsung Electronics's Praesto Team");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Flash Friendly File System");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+