diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index 7272c0e0ac96b13b693ecf3f9ad05646bc5532c1..5aca68448f1eeb4a41cbf0d9cfe0cf5ff5fb95bf 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -70,6 +70,11 @@ struct f2fs_fault_info {
 
 extern const char *f2fs_fault_name[FAULT_MAX];
 #define IS_FAULT_SET(fi, type) ((fi)->inject_type & (1 << (type)))
+
+/* maximum retry count for injected failure */
+#define DEFAULT_FAILURE_RETRY_COUNT		8
+#else
+#define DEFAULT_FAILURE_RETRY_COUNT		1
 #endif
 
 /*
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
index c3c527afdd07491774c1da7181ab2937ace8c880..2e4cac1aed76f2541950de122f2447e59a8dceeb 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/recovery.c
@@ -543,6 +543,19 @@ static int check_index_in_prev_nodes(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi,
 	return 0;
 }
 
+static int f2fs_reserve_new_block_retry(struct dnode_of_data *dn)
+{
+	int i, err = 0;
+
+	for (i = DEFAULT_FAILURE_RETRY_COUNT; i > 0; i--) {
+		err = f2fs_reserve_new_block(dn);
+		if (!err)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	return err;
+}
+
 static int do_recover_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct inode *inode,
 					struct page *page)
 {
@@ -641,20 +654,17 @@ static int do_recover_data(struct f2fs_sb_info *sbi, struct inode *inode,
 		 */
 		if (dest == NEW_ADDR) {
 			f2fs_truncate_data_blocks_range(&dn, 1);
-			f2fs_reserve_new_block(&dn);
+
+			err = f2fs_reserve_new_block_retry(&dn);
+			if (err)
+				goto err;
 			continue;
 		}
 
 		/* dest is valid block, try to recover from src to dest */
 		if (f2fs_is_valid_blkaddr(sbi, dest, META_POR)) {
-
 			if (src == NULL_ADDR) {
-				err = f2fs_reserve_new_block(&dn);
-				while (err &&
-				       IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_F2FS_FAULT_INJECTION))
-					err = f2fs_reserve_new_block(&dn);
-				/* We should not get -ENOSPC */
-				f2fs_bug_on(sbi, err);
+				err = f2fs_reserve_new_block_retry(&dn);
 				if (err)
 					goto err;
 			}