diff --git a/drivers/net/tun.c b/drivers/net/tun.c
index 64e694c68d99..e2af2dd544f0 100644
--- a/drivers/net/tun.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tun.c
@@ -878,13 +878,6 @@ static netdev_tx_t tun_net_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 	    sk_filter(tfile->socket.sk, skb))
 		goto drop;
 
-	/* Limit the number of packets queued by dividing txq length with the
-	 * number of queues.
-	 */
-	if (skb_queue_len(&tfile->socket.sk->sk_receive_queue) * numqueues
-			  >= dev->tx_queue_len)
-		goto drop;
-
 	if (unlikely(skb_orphan_frags(skb, GFP_ATOMIC)))
 		goto drop;