diff --git a/fs/ext4/inode.c b/fs/ext4/inode.c
index 45f31dc1e66f..bad1792865e9 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/inode.c
@@ -223,13 +223,13 @@ void ext4_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
 
 	/*
 	 * For inodes with journalled data, transaction commit could have
-	 * dirtied the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because of I_FREEING
-	 * flag but we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists.
+	 * dirtied the inode. And for inodes with dioread_nolock, unwritten
+	 * extents converting worker could merge extents and also have dirtied
+	 * the inode. Flush worker is ignoring it because of I_FREEING flag but
+	 * we still need to remove the inode from the writeback lists.
 	 */
-	if (!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list)) {
-		WARN_ON_ONCE(!ext4_should_journal_data(inode));
+	if (!list_empty_careful(&inode->i_io_list))
 		inode_io_list_del(inode);
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Protect us against freezing - iput() caller didn't have to have any