diff --git a/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c b/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c
index 5069cc4c9fb84..155cee68fed51 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/erofs/unzip_vle.c
@@ -943,6 +943,7 @@ static int z_erofs_vle_unzip(struct super_block *sb,
 	for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; ++i)
 		pages[i] = NULL;
 
+	err = 0;
 	z_erofs_pagevec_ctor_init(&ctor, Z_EROFS_NR_INLINE_PAGEVECS,
 				  work->pagevec, 0);
 
@@ -964,8 +965,17 @@ static int z_erofs_vle_unzip(struct super_block *sb,
 			pagenr = z_erofs_onlinepage_index(page);
 
 		DBG_BUGON(pagenr >= nr_pages);
-		DBG_BUGON(pages[pagenr]);
 
+		/*
+		 * currently EROFS doesn't support multiref(dedup),
+		 * so here erroring out one multiref page.
+		 */
+		if (pages[pagenr]) {
+			DBG_BUGON(1);
+			SetPageError(pages[pagenr]);
+			z_erofs_onlinepage_endio(pages[pagenr]);
+			err = -EIO;
+		}
 		pages[pagenr] = page;
 	}
 	sparsemem_pages = i;
@@ -975,7 +985,6 @@ static int z_erofs_vle_unzip(struct super_block *sb,
 	overlapped = false;
 	compressed_pages = grp->compressed_pages;
 
-	err = 0;
 	for (i = 0; i < clusterpages; ++i) {
 		unsigned int pagenr;
 
@@ -999,7 +1008,12 @@ static int z_erofs_vle_unzip(struct super_block *sb,
 			pagenr = z_erofs_onlinepage_index(page);
 
 			DBG_BUGON(pagenr >= nr_pages);
-			DBG_BUGON(pages[pagenr]);
+			if (pages[pagenr]) {
+				DBG_BUGON(1);
+				SetPageError(pages[pagenr]);
+				z_erofs_onlinepage_endio(pages[pagenr]);
+				err = -EIO;
+			}
 			++sparsemem_pages;
 			pages[pagenr] = page;