diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/super.c b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
index df63ba2..ccecfe5 100644
--- a/fs/ocfs2/super.c
+++ b/fs/ocfs2/super.c
@@ -1703,7 +1703,11 @@
 	local = ocfs2_mount_local(osb);
 
 	/* will play back anything left in the journal. */
-	ocfs2_journal_load(osb->journal, local);
+	status = ocfs2_journal_load(osb->journal, local);
+	if (status < 0) {
+		mlog(ML_ERROR, "ocfs2 journal load failed! %d\n", status);
+		goto finally;
+	}
 
 	if (dirty) {
 		/* recover my local alloc if we didn't unmount cleanly. */