diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
index e0950c483c2244e2fb5bdbe978130f71e37a227e..6758aa358475218ea9f2157b937175069320f120 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/f2fs.txt
@@ -106,6 +106,8 @@ background_gc=%s       Turn on/off cleaning operations, namely garbage
                        Default value for this option is on. So garbage
                        collection is on by default.
 disable_roll_forward   Disable the roll-forward recovery routine
+norecovery             Disable the roll-forward recovery routine, mounted read-
+                       only (i.e., -o ro,disable_roll_forward)
 discard                Issue discard/TRIM commands when a segment is cleaned.
 no_heap                Disable heap-style segment allocation which finds free
                        segments for data from the beginning of main area, while
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/super.c b/fs/f2fs/super.c
index 146e310fbf047637b59cc56dd0fc9fb72bc5837c..06d903b5d6c8b138b4a7208648fdc56fdf6cecfc 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/super.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/super.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ static struct kset *f2fs_kset;
 enum {
 	Opt_gc_background,
 	Opt_disable_roll_forward,
+	Opt_norecovery,
 	Opt_discard,
 	Opt_noheap,
 	Opt_user_xattr,
@@ -62,6 +63,7 @@ enum {
 static match_table_t f2fs_tokens = {
 	{Opt_gc_background, "background_gc=%s"},
 	{Opt_disable_roll_forward, "disable_roll_forward"},
+	{Opt_norecovery, "norecovery"},
 	{Opt_discard, "discard"},
 	{Opt_noheap, "no_heap"},
 	{Opt_user_xattr, "user_xattr"},
@@ -287,6 +289,12 @@ static int parse_options(struct super_block *sb, char *options)
 		case Opt_disable_roll_forward:
 			set_opt(sbi, DISABLE_ROLL_FORWARD);
 			break;
+		case Opt_norecovery:
+			/* this option mounts f2fs with ro */
+			set_opt(sbi, DISABLE_ROLL_FORWARD);
+			if (!f2fs_readonly(sb))
+				return -EINVAL;
+			break;
 		case Opt_discard:
 			set_opt(sbi, DISCARD);
 			break;