diff --git a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-mipi-csis.c b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-mipi-csis.c
index 2a03da2f2239fe4c1de68819c21ca270c535b188..80b1c021d14a92928cef7cbe69fa7f30020e0bc4 100644
--- a/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-mipi-csis.c
+++ b/drivers/media/platform/nxp/imx-mipi-csis.c
@@ -1014,14 +1014,6 @@ static int mipi_csis_init_cfg(struct v4l2_subdev *sd,
 		V4L2_MAP_QUANTIZATION_DEFAULT(false, fmt_sink->colorspace,
 					      fmt_sink->ycbcr_enc);
 
-	/*
-	 * When called from mipi_csis_subdev_init() to initialize the active
-	 * configuration, cfg is NULL, which indicates there's no source pad
-	 * configuration to set.
-	 */
-	if (!sd_state)
-		return 0;
-
 	fmt_source = mipi_csis_get_format(csis, sd_state, which,
 					  CSIS_PAD_SOURCE);
 	*fmt_source = *fmt_sink;