diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 224c7a629ec1..45c5ef44e229 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 00d098822fe215a2f4fd32f244a9055b0b043bfe
+refs/heads/master: 55ff3840a293923daacc880cf4aed30c3c49f754
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext4/super.c b/trunk/fs/ext4/super.c
index cb22783a4377..c22926eab5dc 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext4/super.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext4/super.c
@@ -2981,15 +2981,8 @@ static int ext4_register_li_request(struct super_block *sb,
 
 	if (first_not_zeroed == ngroups ||
 	    (sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) ||
-	    !test_opt(sb, INIT_INODE_TABLE)) {
-		sbi->s_li_request = NULL;
+	    !test_opt(sb, INIT_INODE_TABLE))
 		return 0;
-	}
-
-	if (first_not_zeroed == ngroups) {
-		sbi->s_li_request = NULL;
-		return 0;
-	}
 
 	elr = ext4_li_request_new(sb, first_not_zeroed);
 	if (!elr)