diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index bbed1342f31c..3b2f9687f82d 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 4a23f2649698272abcd9e0c9a992d65739f32792
+refs/heads/master: 71c78cfba232de8f61a4b1bbb6e876424d133407
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c b/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
index a3f6b04ebaba..6f9d1bfcca58 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/block/drbd/drbd_req.c
@@ -1002,7 +1002,7 @@ static int drbd_make_request_common(struct drbd_conf *mdev, struct bio *bio, uns
 			congested = 1;
 		}
 
-		if (congested && atomic_read(&mdev->rs_pending_cnt) == 0) {
+		if (congested) {
 			/* rs_pending_cnt must be zero, otherwise the two peers
 			   might get different bitmaps. With sane configurations
 			   the resync stalls long before we might want to go into