diff --git a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
index a484fb72a01f0b620627331522e805a28b7101c0..4bc3ca2cbd7d41bed818f0d7831c9802c365e59f 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/ctree.c
@@ -596,7 +596,6 @@ noinline int btrfs_cow_block(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 		       trans->transid, fs_info->generation);
 
 	if (!should_cow_block(trans, root, buf)) {
-		trans->dirty = true;
 		*cow_ret = buf;
 		return 0;
 	}
@@ -1788,10 +1787,8 @@ int btrfs_search_slot(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root *root,
 			 * then we don't want to set the path blocking,
 			 * so we test it here
 			 */
-			if (!should_cow_block(trans, root, b)) {
-				trans->dirty = true;
+			if (!should_cow_block(trans, root, b))
 				goto cow_done;
-			}
 
 			/*
 			 * must have write locks on this node and the
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
index 3d5c35e4cb76e095439904c37363025dbbe2d584..d2f39a122d89d097cc562d2dbb9a29c129f8bb29 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/extent-tree.c
@@ -4784,7 +4784,6 @@ btrfs_init_new_buffer(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans, struct btrfs_root *root,
 		set_extent_dirty(&trans->transaction->dirty_pages, buf->start,
 			 buf->start + buf->len - 1, GFP_NOFS);
 	}
-	trans->dirty = true;
 	/* this returns a buffer locked for blocking */
 	return buf;
 }
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/super.c b/fs/btrfs/super.c
index 4a396c1147f177c159909390806a153f22fe9f55..bc613218c8c5bd23b62d96417c333f9cab479b51 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/super.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/super.c
@@ -299,17 +299,6 @@ void __btrfs_abort_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans,
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info = trans->fs_info;
 
 	WRITE_ONCE(trans->aborted, errno);
-	/* Nothing used. The other threads that have joined this
-	 * transaction may be able to continue. */
-	if (!trans->dirty && list_empty(&trans->new_bgs)) {
-		const char *errstr;
-
-		errstr = btrfs_decode_error(errno);
-		btrfs_warn(fs_info,
-		           "%s:%d: Aborting unused transaction(%s).",
-		           function, line, errstr);
-		return;
-	}
 	WRITE_ONCE(trans->transaction->aborted, errno);
 	/* Wake up anybody who may be waiting on this transaction */
 	wake_up(&fs_info->transaction_wait);
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
index f75de9f6c0ada5a4600f93b55513f05c29567e47..e0a82aa7da897cc576b62270b10f3abd83be49b0 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.c
@@ -2074,14 +2074,6 @@ int btrfs_commit_transaction(struct btrfs_trans_handle *trans)
 
 	ASSERT(refcount_read(&trans->use_count) == 1);
 
-	/*
-	 * Some places just start a transaction to commit it.  We need to make
-	 * sure that if this commit fails that the abort code actually marks the
-	 * transaction as failed, so set trans->dirty to make the abort code do
-	 * the right thing.
-	 */
-	trans->dirty = true;
-
 	/* Stop the commit early if ->aborted is set */
 	if (TRANS_ABORTED(cur_trans)) {
 		ret = cur_trans->aborted;
diff --git a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
index 364cfbb4c5c596c71dc2f02f838590a9edabcc44..c49e2266b28babe0c279fb91ca3706f26777ec46 100644
--- a/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
+++ b/fs/btrfs/transaction.h
@@ -143,7 +143,6 @@ struct btrfs_trans_handle {
 	bool allocating_chunk;
 	bool can_flush_pending_bgs;
 	bool reloc_reserved;
-	bool dirty;
 	bool in_fsync;
 	struct btrfs_root *root;
 	struct btrfs_fs_info *fs_info;