diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c
index 1940ba8e6f00c..8062d45ee7f4e 100644
--- a/mm/memcontrol.c
+++ b/mm/memcontrol.c
@@ -3691,9 +3691,6 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty(struct mem_cgroup *memcg, bool free_all)
 		ret = -EBUSY;
 		if (cgroup_task_count(cgrp) || !list_empty(&cgrp->children))
 			goto out;
-		ret = -EINTR;
-		if (signal_pending(current))
-			goto out;
 		/* This is for making all *used* pages to be on LRU. */
 		lru_add_drain_all();
 		drain_all_stock_sync(memcg);