diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 1213f15ffd68..4557de37a911 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -516,6 +516,11 @@ struct inode *f2fs_iget(struct super_block *sb, unsigned long ino)
 	} else if (ino == F2FS_COMPRESS_INO(sbi)) {
 #ifdef CONFIG_F2FS_FS_COMPRESSION
 		inode->i_mapping->a_ops = &f2fs_compress_aops;
+		/*
+		 * generic_error_remove_page only truncates pages of regular
+		 * inode
+		 */
+		inode->i_mode |= S_IFREG;
 #endif
 		mapping_set_gfp_mask(inode->i_mapping,
 			GFP_NOFS | __GFP_HIGHMEM | __GFP_MOVABLE);