diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
index 8ebe5f13279c0..0b15b1ff4bdd3 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_bmap.c
@@ -3699,7 +3699,6 @@ xfs_bmap_btalloc(
 		ap->blkno = args.fsbno;
 		if (ap->tp->t_firstblock == NULLFSBLOCK)
 			ap->tp->t_firstblock = args.fsbno;
-		ASSERT(nullfb || fb_agno <= args.agno);
 		ap->length = args.len;
 		/*
 		 * If the extent size hint is active, we tried to round the