diff --git a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
index 5cc7d097b2ac..85d84d909f78 100644
--- a/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/jbd2/transaction.c
@@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ static void jbd2_freeze_jh_data(struct journal_head *jh)
 	char *source;
 	struct buffer_head *bh = jh2bh(jh);
 
-	J_EXPECT_JH(jh, buffer_uptodate(bh), "Possible IO failure.\n");
+	J_EXPECT_JH(jh, buffer_uptodate(bh), "Buffer not uptodate!\n");
 	source = kmap_local_folio(bh->b_folio, bh_offset(bh));
 	/* Fire data frozen trigger just before we copy the data */
 	jbd2_buffer_frozen_trigger(jh, source, jh->b_triggers);