diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 1fae31f781d8..1a916716cefe 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2562,6 +2562,9 @@ int btrfs_validate_super(const struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 		ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
 
+	if (ret)
+		return ret;
+
 	ret = validate_sys_chunk_array(fs_info, sb);
 
 	/*