diff --git a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
index e8b6b89bddb865..59d0472013f437 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/checkpoint.c
@@ -696,6 +696,8 @@ int f2fs_recover_orphan_inodes(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi)
 	/* clear Orphan Flag */
 	clear_ckpt_flags(sbi, CP_ORPHAN_PRESENT_FLAG);
 out:
+	set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_IS_RECOVERED);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_QUOTA
 	/* Turn quotas off */
 	if (quota_enabled)
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index e146e6c443e843..ecb73514227693 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -1089,6 +1089,7 @@ enum {
 	SBI_NEED_SB_WRITE,			/* need to recover superblock */
 	SBI_NEED_CP,				/* need to checkpoint */
 	SBI_IS_SHUTDOWN,			/* shutdown by ioctl */
+	SBI_IS_RECOVERED,			/* recovered orphan/data */
 };
 
 enum {
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index 12a3293bcbc943..9a8579fb3a30db 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -698,11 +698,15 @@ int f2fs_recover_fsync_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, bool check_only)
 	/* let's drop all the directory inodes for clean checkpoint */
 	destroy_fsync_dnodes(&dir_list);
 
-	if (!err && need_writecp) {
-		struct cp_control cpc = {
-			.reason = CP_RECOVERY,
-		};
-		err = f2fs_write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
+	if (need_writecp) {
+		set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_IS_RECOVERED);
+
+		if (!err) {
+			struct cp_control cpc = {
+				.reason = CP_RECOVERY,
+			};
+			err = f2fs_write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
+		}
 	}
 
 	kmem_cache_destroy(fsync_entry_slab);
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index d0d016f213079e..287c9fe9fff9a2 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -3188,6 +3188,9 @@ static void kill_f2fs_super(struct super_block *sb)
 			};
 			f2fs_write_checkpoint(sbi, &cpc);
 		}
+
+		if (is_sbi_flag_set(sbi, SBI_IS_RECOVERED) && f2fs_readonly(sb))
+			sb->s_flags &= ~SB_RDONLY;
 	}
 	kill_block_super(sb);
 }