diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 2ab3b424735a..1d85f1e58d32 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -751,7 +751,8 @@ void f2fs_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 	trace_f2fs_evict_inode(inode);
 	truncate_inode_pages_final(&inode->i_data);
 
-	if (test_opt(sbi, COMPRESS_CACHE) && f2fs_compressed_file(inode))
+	if ((inode->i_nlink || is_bad_inode(inode)) &&
+		test_opt(sbi, COMPRESS_CACHE) && f2fs_compressed_file(inode))
 		f2fs_invalidate_compress_pages(sbi, inode->i_ino);
 
 	if (inode->i_ino == F2FS_NODE_INO(sbi) ||