diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
index 308f05be107c..58973e4d2471 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/localalloc.c
@@ -345,13 +345,18 @@ int ocfs2_load_local_alloc(struct ocfs2_super *osb)
 	if (num_used
 	    || alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_used
 	    || alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_total
-	    || la->la_bm_off)
-		mlog(ML_ERROR, "Local alloc hasn't been recovered!\n"
+	    || la->la_bm_off) {
+		mlog(ML_ERROR, "inconsistent detected, clean journal with"
+		     " unrecovered local alloc, please run fsck.ocfs2!\n"
 		     "found = %u, set = %u, taken = %u, off = %u\n",
 		     num_used, le32_to_cpu(alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_used),
 		     le32_to_cpu(alloc->id1.bitmap1.i_total),
 		     OCFS2_LOCAL_ALLOC(alloc)->la_bm_off);
 
+		status = -EINVAL;
+		goto bail;
+	}
+
 	osb->local_alloc_bh = alloc_bh;
 	osb->local_alloc_state = OCFS2_LA_ENABLED;