diff --git a/fs/nilfs2/inode.c b/fs/nilfs2/inode.c
index ba7a1da7634b2a19a7a01da2dba9712fd6e2971b..cf02f5530713e4354b20119d68346bcd25f8ec57 100644
--- a/fs/nilfs2/inode.c
+++ b/fs/nilfs2/inode.c
@@ -192,7 +192,7 @@ static int nilfs_writepage(struct page *page, struct writeback_control *wbc)
 	struct inode *inode = page->mapping->host;
 	int err;
 
-	if (inode && (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY)) {
+	if (inode->i_sb->s_flags & MS_RDONLY) {
 		/*
 		 * It means that filesystem was remounted in read-only
 		 * mode because of error or metadata corruption. But we