diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c
index 39c5a6e24915ccc0ba875b595ef679c2c086c290..b102e611bf540ae31078fa108372416a7524ddd5 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c
@@ -172,12 +172,7 @@ xfs_imap_to_bp(
 				   (int)imap->im_len, buf_flags, &bp,
 				   &xfs_inode_buf_ops);
 	if (error) {
-		if (error == -EAGAIN) {
-			ASSERT(buf_flags & XBF_TRYLOCK);
-			return error;
-		}
-		xfs_warn(mp, "%s: xfs_trans_read_buf() returned error %d.",
-			__func__, error);
+		ASSERT(error != -EAGAIN || (buf_flags & XBF_TRYLOCK));
 		return error;
 	}
 
diff --git a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
index 788a68ef8d104a3f7d3acc1946c9e0d5aa10ed71..d1f7da2fc2eca4c1b0894718ab05ffa080ad3d1e 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/xfs_inode.c
@@ -3657,19 +3657,6 @@ xfs_iflush(
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * This may have been unpinned because the filesystem is shutting
-	 * down forcibly. If that's the case we must not write this inode
-	 * to disk, because the log record didn't make it to disk.
-	 *
-	 * We also have to remove the log item from the AIL in this case,
-	 * as we wait for an empty AIL as part of the unmount process.
-	 */
-	if (XFS_FORCED_SHUTDOWN(mp)) {
-		error = -EIO;
-		goto abort;
-	}
-
 	/*
 	 * Get the buffer containing the on-disk inode. We are doing a try-lock
 	 * operation here, so we may get an EAGAIN error. In that case, return