diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 17ed1cbfe113..8250088cac1b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 9a6478f6cccbd15af30f02368e68b47390360485
+refs/heads/master: 576e613d2111036a075b7c4f7cafdf29a0021c29
diff --git a/trunk/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/trunk/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 32aea0b779c5..f1ab4a8ae22c 100644
--- a/trunk/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/trunk/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -1664,7 +1664,6 @@ call_transmit(struct rpc_task *task)
 	task->tk_action = call_transmit_status;
 	/* Encode here so that rpcsec_gss can use correct sequence number. */
 	if (rpc_task_need_encode(task)) {
-		BUG_ON(task->tk_rqstp->rq_bytes_sent != 0);
 		rpc_xdr_encode(task);
 		/* Did the encode result in an error condition? */
 		if (task->tk_status != 0) {