diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index fd216d9369faaa365bd72d53875898a3ee8103fd..dd6676b446f654cb6ce6140a68c5c265432cd4d9 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2466,8 +2466,8 @@ int open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
 
 	if (!(sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
 		ret = btrfs_cleanup_fs_roots(fs_info);
-		if (ret) {
-			}
+		if (ret)
+			goto fail_trans_kthread;
 
 		ret = btrfs_recover_relocation(tree_root);
 		if (ret < 0) {