diff --git a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c
index c667c63f2cb003cea791a158627b4bf76ca988c8..4d7410e49db41b93c8c77160d998bc6a8947f591 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/libxfs/xfs_inode_buf.c
@@ -547,10 +547,6 @@ xfs_dinode_verify(
 	if ((flags2 & XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK) && (flags & XFS_DIFLAG_REALTIME))
 		return __this_address;
 
-	/* don't let reflink and dax mix */
-	if ((flags2 & XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK) && (flags2 & XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX))
-		return __this_address;
-
 	/* COW extent size hint validation */
 	fa = xfs_inode_validate_cowextsize(mp, be32_to_cpu(dip->di_cowextsize),
 			mode, flags, flags2);
diff --git a/fs/xfs/scrub/inode.c b/fs/xfs/scrub/inode.c
index bb25ff1b770d12519a4419d907d1a63750787e0e..faf65eb5bd310311117c4fb5b5241d6e1059b813 100644
--- a/fs/xfs/scrub/inode.c
+++ b/fs/xfs/scrub/inode.c
@@ -185,10 +185,6 @@ xchk_inode_flags2(
 	if ((flags & XFS_DIFLAG_REALTIME) && (flags2 & XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK))
 		goto bad;
 
-	/* dax and reflink make no sense, currently */
-	if ((flags2 & XFS_DIFLAG2_DAX) && (flags2 & XFS_DIFLAG2_REFLINK))
-		goto bad;
-
 	/* no bigtime iflag without the bigtime feature */
 	if (xfs_dinode_has_bigtime(dip) &&
 	    !xfs_sb_version_hasbigtime(&mp->m_sb))