1 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/md/bcache/extents.c b/drivers/md/bcache/extents.c
index d6de3c76a87b..7d73d8625522 100644
--- a/drivers/md/bcache/extents.c
+++ b/drivers/md/bcache/extents.c
@@ -575,11 +575,6 @@ static bool bch_extent_merge(struct btree_keys *bk, struct bkey *l, struct bkey
         if (key_merging_disabled(b->c))
                 return false;
 
-        if (KEY_PTRS(l) != KEY_PTRS(r) ||
-            KEY_DIRTY(l) != KEY_DIRTY(r) ||
-            bkey_cmp(l, &START_KEY(r)))
-                return false;
-
         for (i = 0; i < KEY_PTRS(l); i++)
                 if (l->ptr[i] + PTR(0, KEY_SIZE(l), 0) != r->ptr[i] ||
                     PTR_BUCKET_NR(b->c, l, i) != PTR_BUCKET_NR(b->c, r, i))