1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr_remote.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
index dee84466dcc9..aad95b08e76b 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_attr_remote.c
@@ -359,6 +359,11 @@ xfs_attr_rmtval_set(
                  * into requiring more blocks. e.g. for 512 byte blocks, we'll
                  * spill for another block every 9 headers we require in this
                  * loop.
+                 *
+                 * Note that this can result in contiguous allocation of blocks,
+                 * so we don't use all the space we allocate for headers as we
+                 * have one less header for each contiguous allocation that
+                 * occurs in the map/write loop below.
                  */
                 if (crcs && blkcnt == 0) {
                         int total_len;
@@ -439,7 +444,6 @@ xfs_attr_rmtval_set(
                 lblkno += map.br_blockcount;
         }
         ASSERT(valuelen == 0);
-        ASSERT(hdrcnt == 0);
         return 0;
 }