1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 083f5b63e7a8..da432d9f0ae8 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -164,9 +164,7 @@ void __meminit mminit_validate_memmodel_limits(unsigned long *start_pfn,
                 WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
                 *start_pfn = max_sparsemem_pfn;
                 *end_pfn = max_sparsemem_pfn;
-        }
-
-        if (*end_pfn > max_sparsemem_pfn) {
+        } else if (*end_pfn > max_sparsemem_pfn) {
                 mminit_dprintk(MMINIT_WARNING, "pfnvalidation",
                         "End of range %lu -> %lu exceeds SPARSEMEM max %lu\n",
                         *start_pfn, *end_pfn, max_sparsemem_pfn);