diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c b/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c
index e3ef8660c4f76e0c47abcf87685a16942148b563..ad6fe6d9d00abe33e816e9efded5eb0fda0818e6 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ static int z_erofs_vle_unzip(struct super_block *sb,
 	overlapped = false;
 	compressed_pages = grp->compressed_pages;
 
+	err = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < clusterpages; ++i) {
 		unsigned pagenr;
 
@@ -894,26 +895,39 @@ static int z_erofs_vle_unzip(struct super_block *sb,
 		DBG_BUGON(page == NULL);
 		DBG_BUGON(page->mapping == NULL);
 
-		if (z_erofs_is_stagingpage(page))
-			continue;
+		if (!z_erofs_is_stagingpage(page)) {
 #ifdef EROFS_FS_HAS_MANAGED_CACHE
-		if (page->mapping == mngda) {
-			DBG_BUGON(!PageUptodate(page));
-			continue;
-		}
+			if (page->mapping == mngda) {
+				if (unlikely(!PageUptodate(page)))
+					err = -EIO;
+				continue;
+			}
 #endif
 
-		/* only non-head page could be reused as a compressed page */
-		pagenr = z_erofs_onlinepage_index(page);
+			/*
+			 * only if non-head page can be selected
+			 * for inplace decompression
+			 */
+			pagenr = z_erofs_onlinepage_index(page);
 
-		DBG_BUGON(pagenr >= nr_pages);
-		DBG_BUGON(pages[pagenr]);
-		++sparsemem_pages;
-		pages[pagenr] = page;
+			DBG_BUGON(pagenr >= nr_pages);
+			DBG_BUGON(pages[pagenr]);
+			++sparsemem_pages;
+			pages[pagenr] = page;
 
-		overlapped = true;
+			overlapped = true;
+		}
+
+		/* PG_error needs checking for inplaced and staging pages */
+		if (unlikely(PageError(page))) {
+			DBG_BUGON(PageUptodate(page));
+			err = -EIO;
+		}
 	}
 
+	if (unlikely(err))
+		goto out;
+
 	llen = (nr_pages << PAGE_SHIFT) - work->pageofs;
 
 	if (z_erofs_vle_workgrp_fmt(grp) == Z_EROFS_VLE_WORKGRP_FMT_PLAIN) {
@@ -1082,6 +1096,8 @@ static inline bool recover_managed_page(struct z_erofs_vle_workgroup *grp,
 		return true;
 
 	lock_page(page);
+	ClearPageError(page);
+
 	if (unlikely(!PagePrivate(page))) {
 		set_page_private(page, (unsigned long)grp);
 		SetPagePrivate(page);