diff --git a/net/mptcp/protocol.c b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
index 5c003a0f0fe5..7cce844c2a9c 100644
--- a/net/mptcp/protocol.c
+++ b/net/mptcp/protocol.c
@@ -2318,9 +2318,6 @@ bool __mptcp_retransmit_pending_data(struct sock *sk)
 	if (__mptcp_check_fallback(msk))
 		return false;
 
-	if (tcp_rtx_and_write_queues_empty(sk))
-		return false;
-
 	/* the closing socket has some data untransmitted and/or unacked:
 	 * some data in the mptcp rtx queue has not really xmitted yet.
 	 * keep it simple and re-inject the whole mptcp level rtx queue