diff --git a/fs/f2fs/gc.c b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
index 18aa6a12e805..5b948c92f981 100644
--- a/fs/f2fs/gc.c
+++ b/fs/f2fs/gc.c
@@ -1453,8 +1453,16 @@ static int move_data_block(struct inode *inode, block_t bidx,
 		goto up_out;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If newaddr is in a sequential zone, it must be written once it is
+	 * allocated, otherwise it leaves a hole in the zone, and the following
+	 * write to the zone will fail as an unaligned write, so don't fail
+	 * here.
+	 */
 	tentry = f2fs_grab_cache(META_CACHE(fio.sbi), newaddr,
-					F2FS_CACHE_LOCK_CREATE);
+			F2FS_CACHE_LOCK_CREATE |
+			(f2fs_is_sequential_zone_area(fio.sbi, newaddr) ?
+			 F2FS_CACHE_NOFAIL : 0));
 	if (IS_ERR(tentry)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(tentry);
 		f2fs_put_cache(sentry, true);