diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 6f353b2f978c..220c523d5c4f 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 288be96de66fa7c09f2cf00a7793db5b4bac4213
+refs/heads/master: 98783e453c1084527388ec1a7f6367cd6aabbe63
diff --git a/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c b/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c
index 2616d0ea5c5c..ea88181932df 100644
--- a/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c
+++ b/trunk/fs/ext2/balloc.c
@@ -1239,10 +1239,6 @@ ext2_fsblk_t ext2_new_blocks(struct inode *inode, ext2_fsblk_t goal,
 
 	*errp = -ENOSPC;
 	sb = inode->i_sb;
-	if (!sb) {
-		printk("ext2_new_blocks: nonexistent device");
-		return 0;
-	}
 
 	/*
 	 * Check quota for allocation of this block.