diff --git a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
index c0b1f6e6220bd..a0e1e29b9640c 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
+++ b/fs/f2fs/f2fs.h
@@ -3916,6 +3916,7 @@ extern struct kmem_cache *f2fs_inode_entry_slab;
  * inline.c
  */
 bool f2fs_may_inline_data(struct inode *inode);
+bool f2fs_sanity_check_inline_data(struct inode *inode);
 bool f2fs_may_inline_dentry(struct inode *inode);
 void f2fs_do_read_inline_data(struct page *page, struct page *ipage);
 void f2fs_truncate_inline_inode(struct inode *inode,
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inline.c b/fs/f2fs/inline.c
index ea08f0dfa1bdf..d0e3fc963cf23 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inline.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inline.c
@@ -14,21 +14,40 @@
 #include "node.h"
 #include <trace/events/f2fs.h>
 
-bool f2fs_may_inline_data(struct inode *inode)
+static bool support_inline_data(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	if (f2fs_is_atomic_file(inode))
 		return false;
-
 	if (!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))
 		return false;
-
 	if (i_size_read(inode) > MAX_INLINE_DATA(inode))
 		return false;
+	return true;
+}
 
-	if (f2fs_post_read_required(inode))
+bool f2fs_may_inline_data(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (!support_inline_data(inode))
 		return false;
 
-	return true;
+	return !f2fs_post_read_required(inode);
+}
+
+bool f2fs_sanity_check_inline_data(struct inode *inode)
+{
+	if (!f2fs_has_inline_data(inode))
+		return false;
+
+	if (!support_inline_data(inode))
+		return true;
+
+	/*
+	 * used by sanity_check_inode(), when disk layout fields has not
+	 * been synchronized to inmem fields.
+	 */
+	return (S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) &&
+		(file_is_encrypt(inode) || file_is_verity(inode) ||
+		(F2FS_I(inode)->i_flags & F2FS_COMPR_FL)));
 }
 
 bool f2fs_may_inline_dentry(struct inode *inode)
diff --git a/fs/f2fs/inode.c b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
index 5ac3fc39c38a3..bd8960f4966bc 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/inode.c
@@ -276,8 +276,7 @@ static bool sanity_check_inode(struct inode *inode, struct page *node_page)
 		}
 	}
 
-	if (f2fs_has_inline_data(inode) &&
-			(!S_ISREG(inode->i_mode) && !S_ISLNK(inode->i_mode))) {
+	if (f2fs_sanity_check_inline_data(inode)) {
 		set_sbi_flag(sbi, SBI_NEED_FSCK);
 		f2fs_warn(sbi, "%s: inode (ino=%lx, mode=%u) should not have inline_data, run fsck to fix",
 			  __func__, inode->i_ino, inode->i_mode);