diff --git a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
index 3f3bb70ca437..ce6dc95effae 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/disk-io.c
@@ -2816,6 +2816,20 @@ int open_ctree(struct super_block *sb,
 		goto fail_alloc;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * Verify the type first, if that or the the checksum value are
+	 * corrupted, we'll find out
+	 */
+	if (!btrfs_supported_super_csum(btrfs_super_csum_type(
+				 (struct btrfs_super_block *) bh->b_data))) {
+		btrfs_err(fs_info, "unsupported checksum algorithm: %u",
+			  btrfs_super_csum_type((struct btrfs_super_block *)
+						bh->b_data));
+		err = -EINVAL;
+		brelse(bh);
+		goto fail_alloc;
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * We want to check superblock checksum, the type is stored inside.
 	 * Pass the whole disk block of size BTRFS_SUPER_INFO_SIZE (4k).