diff --git a/be/src/olap/task/engine_clone_task.cpp b/be/src/olap/task/engine_clone_task.cpp
index 259b1f7108..5158180378 100644
--- a/be/src/olap/task/engine_clone_task.cpp
+++ b/be/src/olap/task/engine_clone_task.cpp
@@ -702,8 +702,6 @@ Status EngineCloneTask::_finish_clone(Tablet* tablet, const std::string& clone_d
     /// Traverse all downloaded clone files in CLONE dir.
     /// If it does not exist in local tablet dir, link the file to local tablet dir
     /// And save all linked files in linked_success_files.
-    /// if binlog exist in clone dir and md5sum equal, then skip link file
-    bool skip_link_file = false;
     for (const string& clone_file : clone_file_names) {
         if (local_file_names.find(clone_file) != local_file_names.end()) {
             VLOG_NOTICE << "find same file when clone, skip it. "
@@ -711,6 +709,8 @@ Status EngineCloneTask::_finish_clone(Tablet* tablet, const std::string& clone_d
             continue;
         }
 
+        /// if binlog exist in clone dir and md5sum equal, then skip link file
+        bool skip_link_file = false;
         std::string to;
         if (clone_file.ends_with(".binlog") || clone_file.ends_with(".binlog-index")) {
             if (!contain_binlog) {