diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
index 5877b92ab6f14..6138db471b170 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/fault.c
@@ -1100,24 +1100,6 @@ access_error(unsigned long error_code, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
 {
 	/* This is only called for the current mm, so: */
 	bool foreign = false;
-	/*
-	 * Access or read was blocked by protection keys. We do
-	 * this check before any others because we do not want
-	 * to, for instance, confuse a protection-key-denied
-	 * write with one for which we should do a COW.
-	 */
-	if (error_code & PF_PK)
-		return 1;
-
-	if (!(error_code & PF_INSTR)) {
-		/*
-		 * Assume all accesses require either read or execute
-		 * permissions.  This is not an instruction access, so
-		 * it requires read permissions.
-		 */
-		if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ))
-			return 1;
-	}
 	/*
 	 * Make sure to check the VMA so that we do not perform
 	 * faults just to hit a PF_PK as soon as we fill in a