diff --git a/block/bio.c b/block/bio.c
index f8d26ce7b61b..6d6e7b96b002 100644
--- a/block/bio.c
+++ b/block/bio.c
@@ -1057,9 +1057,6 @@ static int __bio_iov_append_get_pages(struct bio *bio, struct iov_iter *iter)
 	size_t offset;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!max_append_sectors))
-		return 0;
-
 	/*
 	 * Move page array up in the allocated memory for the bio vecs as far as
 	 * possible so that we can start filling biovecs from the beginning