diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 02174764f68b..08d822acfccd 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 542582fce1700c01b12e7945aaf173074e008e3e
+refs/heads/master: 38f5f65e9d25b0a7270c337a35c724ca3d56f4d8
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c b/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c
index 43f6ef8d696f..3475bb2e03ab 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/block/rbd.c
@@ -1475,10 +1475,6 @@ static void rbd_rq_fn(struct request_queue *q)
 		struct rbd_req_coll *coll;
 		struct ceph_snap_context *snapc;
 
-		/* peek at request from block layer */
-		if (!rq)
-			break;
-
 		dout("fetched request\n");
 
 		/* filter out block requests we don't understand */