diff --git a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
index 32aea0b779c51fa8be2ce4abc529aad9a7733d3e..f1ab4a8ae22cfd4d6b462d4cb25ff50f2b5ad405 100644
--- a/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
+++ b/net/sunrpc/clnt.c
@@ -1664,7 +1664,6 @@ call_transmit(struct rpc_task *task)
 	task->tk_action = call_transmit_status;
 	/* Encode here so that rpcsec_gss can use correct sequence number. */
 	if (rpc_task_need_encode(task)) {
-		BUG_ON(task->tk_rqstp->rq_bytes_sent != 0);
 		rpc_xdr_encode(task);
 		/* Did the encode result in an error condition? */
 		if (task->tk_status != 0) {