diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index d99bf7c64611..6538f52262ca 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -3296,6 +3296,8 @@ int btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
 /*
  * Do various sanity and dependency checks of different features.
  *
+ * @is_rw_mount:	If the mount is read-write.
+ *
  * This is the place for less strict checks (like for subpage or artificial
  * feature dependencies).
  *
@@ -3306,7 +3308,7 @@ int btrfs_start_pre_rw_mount(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info)
  * (space cache related) can modify on-disk format like free space tree and
  * screw up certain feature dependencies.
  */
-int btrfs_check_features(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, struct super_block *sb)
+int btrfs_check_features(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, bool is_rw_mount)
 {
 	struct btrfs_super_block *disk_super = fs_info->super_copy;
 	u64 incompat = btrfs_super_incompat_flags(disk_super);
@@ -3345,7 +3347,7 @@ int btrfs_check_features(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, struct super_block *sb)
 	if (btrfs_super_nodesize(disk_super) > PAGE_SIZE)
 		incompat |= BTRFS_FEATURE_INCOMPAT_BIG_METADATA;
 
-	if (compat_ro_unsupp && !sb_rdonly(sb)) {
+	if (compat_ro_unsupp && is_rw_mount) {
 		btrfs_err(fs_info,
 	"cannot mount read-write because of unknown compat_ro features (0x%llx)",
 		       compat_ro);
@@ -3548,7 +3550,7 @@ int __cold open_ctree(struct super_block *sb, struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_device
 		goto fail_alloc;
 	}
 
-	ret = btrfs_check_features(fs_info, sb);
+	ret = btrfs_check_features(fs_info, !sb_rdonly(sb));
 	if (ret < 0) {
 		err = ret;
 		goto fail_alloc;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.h b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.h
index 9fa923e005a3..7322af63c0cc 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.h
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ int __cold open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
 void __cold close_ctree(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info);
 int btrfs_validate_super(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info,
 			 struct btrfs_super_block *sb, int mirror_num);
-int btrfs_check_features(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, struct super_block *sb);
+int btrfs_check_features(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, bool is_rw_mount);
 int write_all_supers(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, int max_mirrors);
 struct btrfs_super_block *btrfs_read_dev_super(struct block_device *bdev);
 struct btrfs_super_block *btrfs_read_dev_one_super(struct block_device *bdev,
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 5942b9384088..abfd7c897075 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -2014,7 +2014,7 @@ static int btrfs_remount(struct super_block *sb, int *flags, char *data)
 	if (ret)
 		goto restore;
 
-	ret = btrfs_check_features(fs_info, sb);
+	ret = btrfs_check_features(fs_info, !(*flags & SB_RDONLY));
 	if (ret < 0)
 		goto restore;