diff --git a/fs/ext4/super.c b/fs/ext4/super.c
index 920658ca8777..06568467b0c2 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -455,19 +455,17 @@ static bool system_going_down(void)
 
 static void ext4_handle_error(struct super_block *sb)
 {
+	journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
+
 	if (test_opt(sb, WARN_ON_ERROR))
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
 
-	if (sb_rdonly(sb))
+	if (sb_rdonly(sb) || test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT))
 		return;
 
-	if (!test_opt(sb, ERRORS_CONT)) {
-		journal_t *journal = EXT4_SB(sb)->s_journal;
-
-		EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_flags |= EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED;
-		if (journal)
-			jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
-	}
+	EXT4_SB(sb)->s_mount_flags |= EXT4_MF_FS_ABORTED;
+	if (journal)
+		jbd2_journal_abort(journal, -EIO);
 	/*
 	 * We force ERRORS_RO behavior when system is rebooting. Otherwise we
 	 * could panic during 'reboot -f' as the underlying device got already