diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 06f9f167222b..bd5689fa290e 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@ static noinline int compress_file_range(struct async_chunk *async_chunk)
 	 * inode has not been flagged as nocompress.  This flag can
 	 * change at any time if we discover bad compression ratios.
 	 */
-	if (nr_pages > 1 && inode_need_compress(BTRFS_I(inode), start, end)) {
+	if (inode_need_compress(BTRFS_I(inode), start, end)) {
 		WARN_ON(pages);
 		pages = kcalloc(nr_pages, sizeof(struct page *), GFP_NOFS);
 		if (!pages) {