diff --git a/fs/f2fs/file.c b/fs/f2fs/file.c
index a0413c951458..0246d19d96c3 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/file.c
@@ -274,9 +274,19 @@ sync_nodes:
 		goto sync_nodes;
 	}
 
-	ret = wait_on_node_pages_writeback(sbi, ino);
-	if (ret)
-		goto out;
+	/*
+	 * If it's atomic_write, it's just fine to keep write ordering. So
+	 * here we don't need to wait for node write completion, since we use
+	 * node chain which serializes node blocks. If one of node writes are
+	 * reordered, we can see simply broken chain, resulting in stopping
+	 * roll-forward recovery. It means we'll recover all or none node blocks
+	 * given fsync mark.
+	 */
+	if (!atomic) {
+		ret = wait_on_node_pages_writeback(sbi, ino);
+		if (ret)
+			goto out;
+	}
 
 	/* once recovery info is written, don't need to tack this */
 	remove_ino_entry(sbi, ino, APPEND_INO);