diff --git a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
index a7a3708700c03415468192edd284bf08668d095e..3acce09bba35c54b1afe4e8af962766bfd90eb73 100644
--- a/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
+++ b/drivers/md/dm-integrity.c
@@ -3028,6 +3028,11 @@ static int dm_integrity_ctr(struct dm_target *ti, unsigned argc, char **argv)
 		ti->error = "Block size doesn't match the information in superblock";
 		goto bad;
 	}
+	if (!le32_to_cpu(ic->sb->journal_sections)) {
+		r = -EINVAL;
+		ti->error = "Corrupted superblock, journal_sections is 0";
+		goto bad;
+	}
 	/* make sure that ti->max_io_len doesn't overflow */
 	if (ic->sb->log2_interleave_sectors < MIN_LOG2_INTERLEAVE_SECTORS ||
 	    ic->sb->log2_interleave_sectors > MAX_LOG2_INTERLEAVE_SECTORS) {