diff --git a/fs/btrfs/inode.c b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
index 17418a75e3c8..4056fc3b39cf 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/inode.c
@@ -9510,7 +9510,7 @@ int btrfs_start_delalloc_roots(struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info, long nr,
 	mutex_lock(&fs_info->delalloc_root_mutex);
 	spin_lock(&fs_info->delalloc_root_lock);
 	list_splice_init(&fs_info->delalloc_roots, &splice);
-	while (!list_empty(&splice) && nr) {
+	while (!list_empty(&splice)) {
 		/*
 		 * Reset nr_to_write here so we know that we're doing a full
 		 * flush.