diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index de440ebf5648b..8daa5bb93a4c5 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -3670,6 +3670,20 @@ int __cold open_ctree(struct super_block *sb, struct btrfs_fs_devices *fs_device
 		err = -EINVAL;
 		goto fail_alloc;
 	}
+	/*
+	 * We have unsupported RO compat features, although RO mounted, we
+	 * should not cause any metadata write, including log replay.
+	 * Or we could screw up whatever the new feature requires.
+	 */
+	if (unlikely(features && btrfs_super_log_root(disk_super) &&
+		     !btrfs_test_opt(fs_info, NOLOGREPLAY))) {
+		btrfs_err(fs_info,
+"cannot replay dirty log with unsupported compat_ro features (0x%llx), try rescue=nologreplay",
+			  features);
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		goto fail_alloc;
+	}
+
 
 	if (sectorsize < PAGE_SIZE) {
 		struct btrfs_subpage_info *subpage_info;